Lisa Mitts:  

Life Right after I graduated from Lincoln HIgh School, I went straight to Purdue University that summer to participate in the Business Opportunity Program where I had to take 4 courses to start my postsecondary education..five years later I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management degree, and a minor in Industrial Engineering. I had the opportunity to be a business intern with IBM in Boca Raton, FL and an engineering co-op with Harrison Radiator of GM in Dayton, OH during those five years. Unfortunately, during those years, I lost both of my parents a year apart to cancer, 85/86 respectively. After I graduated in '88, I traveled within the U.S., Cali, TX, D.C. and then I went over to Europe for 3 months, and visited Ramstein, Germany; Paris, France; and Lloret De Mar, Spain. I came back and worked for the Roberts' brothers (Mike and Steve) in St. Louis for a year before I landed a job with EDS that moved me to the Chicago area in 1989. And of course as you will see below, life took on a different route. My Kids I was blessed with a sweet and beautiful girl named Naomi Candace Mitts, currently age 18. Her name is biblical; Naomi means delightful and pleasing to the Lord and Candace was an Ethiopian Queen who spread the gospel throughout eastern Africa; all of the queens of Ethiopia subsequently were given this name. And I must say that our Naomi is truly living up to the legacy of both names. And of course, I was also blessed with a charming, adventurous little man, currently age 16, whose name is Xavier Matthew Mitts. His first name means "brilliant", and his middle name, Matthew, has the biblical meaning "a gift of GOD". And I must say that he is truly a gift, because he survived meconium, his first bowel movement, before he was born. He came out as a healthy baby boy. An...Expand for more