Keith Hueftle is a former pastor (Scotland, and inner city Detroit) and Christian conference director (southern Indiana). While training in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the Iona Community, he met Elma. Together, they came to inner city Detroit and an interracial ministry. As white churches folded, Keith started teaching in inner city schools in order for them to stay in the inner city.His call to head the Barn Abbey, a conference center in southern Indiana, opened up teaching, lecturing, and writing opportunities. Elma’s organizational and intellectual gifts were likewise being recognized; and she began to be called on as speaking-coach and as mentor/teacher with mothers of pre-schoolers (MOPS).