Dr. Elizabeth Youmans

Lesson Designer

Founder and President, Chrysalis International
Creator and Editor, The AMO® Program

For the past 35 years, Dr. Elizabeth Youmans has traveled throughout the world as a trainer of teachers, a conference speaker, and a consultant to Christian school founders, faculties, pastors, and home schoolers. She has helped them establish their vision and expression of Christian education by training faculties, mentoring educational leaders, and writing books and curricula centered on Biblical principles.

Elizabeth was called into the sphere of Christian education as a parent of a child enrolled in a Principle Approach® cooperative. She was so interested in the Christian history lessons her son was receiving, she audited his third-grade class. The rest is history! When one of the teachers had major surgery, Elizabeth was asked to teach in her place. The vision was so successful that first year, it was established as an elementary school. For fifteen years, she served as a classroom teacher, curriculum writer, and administrator. The school was designated the national demonstration school for the Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE). She then led a team to design and launch a unique high school vision for the school, where she remains an emeritus board member.

Dr. Youmans served North American education at FACE as a national trainer of teachers, a curriculum writer, an editor of The Noah Plan®, a published K-12 Principle Approach curriculum, and as a graduate school professor at Regent University. When the Lord called her into the nations, she founded Chrysalis International, a Christian educational institute. Inspired by an international NGO to design a principle-based curriculum for children around the world, she wrote a turn-key curriculum and training program for use in the Church that serves all educational settings. Known as the AMO® Program, it is a multi-generational program with a children’s enriched curriculum and worldview courses for the adults who teach and disciple them. After nearly 25 years on the market, this curriculum has proven to be a tool that teaches both children and adults how to think and reason with the truth of God’s Word.

Elizabeth is the mother of four grown children and enjoys her eight grandchildren and one great grandson. She is a member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Orlando, Florida.

Educational Background:

• Ed.D., Whitefield Theological Seminary and College
• M.A.Ed., Regent University, Virginia Beach
• A.D.A. Internship, Fort Sam Houston Medical Center, Texas
• B.S., Pennsylvania State University