The author, Bob Alan McCorkle served as a missionary to Mexico for more than 30 years until 2018. He met his wife, who is from Costa Rica, while studying in language school there in 1993. In the early 2000s, Bob and Ileana briefly served as pastors in California for a Spanish-speaking church and a Chinese American church. Currently their family has an ongoing partnership with churches in southern India. They speak and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. Christmas Journey is Bob’s first written work.