I was hesitant and feeling a bit insecure when I finally sucked it up and signed on to Classmates. In my usual self-absorbed mode, I could hear my former classmates say, "Cathy Yeo? Are you kidding? She didn't graduate with us." And, you'd be right. I graduated from Berean Christian after I left after my sophomore year at HHS. My worst fears weren't realized, however. Shelley sent me an email suggesting that I check out the reunion pix and shortly thereafter, I spoke with Susan Nymeyer and had a pleasant conversation.

My story is a bit lengthy, but it is a praise to our great God. I hope you see it that way, too. After I graduated, there was a stint at Liberty University (where my second daughter ultimately attended on a full-ride softball scholarship) and at a college in So CA. While working in Orange, I met and married a Jewish believer. He was/is a well-known music editor who did "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally," among many other big box office movies. We had four children together. It was an acrimonious divorce from him that taught me more about the infinite love the Father has on this poor sinner (not a P C term). Growing up, I somehow believed that God was an ogre only serving as my judge. Ah, but He wasn't/isn't! When I ultimately confessed my sin to a holy, just, merciful God, He buried it in the deepest sea, never to be remembered (by Him, anyway). While I don't usually talk much about my first marriage, it is part of who I am and a testimony to the overwhelming grace of God. I am no longer under condemnation (Roman 8:1)!--awesome stuff...

I married Gene 21 years ago. We had six children together (for a total of ten), but they are all our kids and there has never been any distinction made. We have six daughters (the oldest two are teachers) and four sons. My oldest son and his wife live in Las Vegas, but are in the process of selling their home and moving back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where we have lived our entire married lives. My next two sons attend college, the next three daughters are a senior, junior and sophomore in high school and rounding it out is an 11 year old son and an 8 year old daughter. They all have hearts for God (so far). With the exception of my youngest son, they are all athletic and all are rabid A's fans. With ten kids, the odds are pretty good that at least one of them won't allow me to placed in a rest home!

My husband, Gene, is a dear. He is a total braniac with a degree in English and a supplemental in Chemistry. He was a sports writer for many years with a large Bay Area newspaper and presently, he is a high school AP and Honors Chem teacher. We attend a nondenominational church with solid biblical teaching where I sometimes play the keyboard and where Gene has taught a small group Bible study.

I could go on and on, and I usually do, but I'll stop by saying thanks for the opportunity to share a slice of my life with you. I enjoyed so much reading your bios, but mostly, I appreciated your walk with God. That is so refreshing.

I will close w/this passage:

24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'" Acts 17:24-28

Continue to be free in His grace,

Cathy Csider


The particulars:

Husband: Gene Csider
My kids: Barbie--27, Amy--25, Elijah--24, Art--22, Sam--19, Charissa--17, Natalie--16, Abby--15, Micah--11 and Lydia--8

Cathy's daughters are in the following pictures