Sandra Crawford

As a young girl, Sandra often sat on the floor of her mother’s office, pecking out cheerful letters to “Mummy” on an old Underwood typewriter. Coming from a long line of letter writers, she soon demonstrated a natural ability to lift even the saddest heart with a simple note of encouragement or a heart-felt poem.

Growing up in an era of rapidly advancing technology, Sandra put her writing on hold to pursue a career in computer programming. After college, she worked as a systems support analyst for one of the largest wholesale distributing companies in North America. She later joined an educational software development firm as a trainer, where she discovered how much she enjoyed helping and teaching others.

 In 1994, Sandra’s passion for sailing took her to the Caribbean, where she worked for a prominent yacht charter company for nearly four years before returning home to Vancouver. After realizing that the pleasures of the world did not fill the emptiness she felt, she found a love like no other in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

In 2002 Sandra left the corporate world once again to enroll in Youth With A Mission’s six-month Discipleship Training School in Kona, Hawaii. After completing the two-month missions “field assignment” portion of the course in the Philippines, she returned to Canada with a new heart for missions and a desire to teach others about the life-changing power of Jesus’ love.