Cecelia Jackson was born in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in a machine shop where her father pioneered small model airplane engines.  She graduated from high school in Milwaukie, Oregon.

        New adventures started when she attended Pomona College in Claremont, California.  There she met a future newspaper editor, Martin A. Jackson, and later married him.  They traveled from newspaper to newspaper in the west, spent time with the Army, and tried their own business.

       She came to know Jesus Christ in a church in Hemet, California, and became very active in bringing renewal to the churches there and later in Arizona. She has been an officer in local Women's Aglow chapters for many years.
        Cecelia learned book editing by doing it. This involved typing a manuscript over and over at first, a task now greatly simplified in her computer.

     She learned the Bible through intensive personal study, by preparing and leading studies for others, and by applying it to her own household and mothering of three children. CeCe is also a spiritual director for individual Christians. Her leaflet series of Bible studies grew out of Sunday school lessons and teaching for small groups. She is now chief editor for Four Craftsmen Publishing, and still loves writing and teaching about the Bible. She co-authored Radical Grace for Finances, a new book, with Martin. To read about Martin, click here.

        CeCe's father, Edwin Daniel Calkin, designed and manufactured Elf model airplane engines for many years. John J. Brown wrote and published the story of the Elf engines in Dan Calkin and His Elfs, ISBN 0-9673666-0-7. This is available by special request from Four Craftsmen Publishing.