For more than six decades, Author Elizabeth Motes has merged music, ministry, family, and writing into one life of service.

Her ministry journey has included 15 years as a pastor’s wife and more than 40 years of traveling in ministry.

While raising and homeschooling her children, she also taught Sunday school, led choirs, served as music director in two churches, and ministered as a speaker and soloist.

Elizabeth organized The Motes Trio, composed of herself and her two children. The group sang during nightly church services while evangelizing alongside her husband of 62 years, Rev. Richard W. Motes, Sr. They continued singing as a group until both children were grown, married, and ministering on their own. She also recorded a solo LP album in 1974 and a second album in 1998.

Around 1995, Elizabeth founded Time With Jesus Ministries with only two women. Six years later, she was mailing approximately 200 newsletters each month. She eventually stopped publishing the newsletter to write her first book, It Happened on the Way to Heaven. She has now written and published 13 books and is working on her 14th.

Her books, songs, and ministry continue to reflect a lifetime devoted to inspiring others through the gifts God placed within her.

Time With Jesus Ministries continues today as a powerful ministry that spotlights her entire family and the legacy she and her husband have built together.