Judy Garlow Wade lives near San Diego, California, and is an intercessory prayer leader at Skyline Wesleyan Church. Along with her husband Keat, she also serves as Co-Director of Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer and of the San Diego County Pastor's Prayer Shield.

Judy is the author of Take the Name of Jesus With You: A Practical Guide for Reaching Your Community through Prayer. This is her first book, born out of a desire to develop a practical self-teaching tool that will help the reader to become more knowledgeable while gaining skill in prayerwalking, thereby becoming better equipped to impact their community for God. Judy's desire is to provide understanding of how God uses prayerwalking to effect a community. Prayer leaders will be able to use the book as a tool to train and encourage people who have a concern for their community and want to recognize opportunities for prayer. Collaborating with her husband, Keat, together the Wades have co-authored articles in PRAY Magazine, May-June 2000 ("San Diego Unites in Prayer") and The Wesleyan Advocate, 2000 ("Reconciliation: An Event and a Process").

Judy and Keat, are co-directors of Uniting Our Hearts In Prayer San Diego County. Meetings are held monthly with intercessors and persons with a passion for prayer from across San Diego County. (See Events for information on the next meeting.) They also maintain a San Diego County Pastor's Prayer Shield which provides prayer coverage for nearly 300 pastors prayed for daily, individually by intercessors. Her brother, Dr. Jim Garlow, is senior pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church where they attend. Judy is an intercessor leader at Skyline as well as Intercessor leader with Keat for Marriage Savers@Skyline.

Keat Wade is Co-Director of Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer along with his wife Judy. Keat is a gifted writer and intercessory prayer leader.

Two of Keat's poems appear in Take the Name of Jesus With You, "His Voice" (page 25) and "Majesty on the Mountain" (page 117). Another of his poems appears in Worship Warrior by Chuck Pierce, "The Light of His Countenance" (page 105). His poetry will appear regularly on this web site. In addition to writing inspirational and sometimes prophetic poetry, he has written a community interest column for a local newspaper.

After a very unique meeting and courtship, Keat moved to San Diego in 1999 when he and Judy were married. Together they developed their ministry. Interestingly both Keat and Judy grew up in Kansas but they met when living 1600 miles apart.

He spent the last 22 years of his teaching career as teacher and administrator at Bartlesville Wesleyan College (now Oklahoma Wesleyan University). In addition to directing the Learning Center, much of his work there involved the teaching and training of future classroom teachers. Prior to his work at OWU, he served as Dean of Students at a Community College, was a counselor at the Jr. High level, and spent several years as a public school teacher. He has also owned and operated his own upholstery and furniture restoration business on a part-time basis for many years and then full-time after retirement before moving to California. He currently works part-time in the offices of Skyline Wesleyan Church.

Between them Keat and Judy have five children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of whom reside in Kansas.