Patricia Palmer is a former missionary to Taiwan. She served as the executive director of the Northern Illinois Crisis Pregnancy Center in Rockford, Illinois, and also as the executive director of programs for the Rockford Rescue Mission before retiring to Gilbert, Arizona. Pat is also a hospital chaplain and serves as a chaplain for the Arizona Southern Baptist Disaster Relief team. She is the author of Minutes for Life. She and her husband have a son and daughter-in-law and two grandsons who live in Mesa, Arizona.