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September 18, 2020

Ellen Byham ’90 (Biology) – Founder, CEO, Beautiful Balance Inspirations

Ellen Byham ’90 (Biology) is a post-adoption specialist at Bethany Christian Services.  She is also the Founder and CEO of Beautiful Balance Inspirations, a small non-profit organization that focuses on education, healthcare, and microfinance.  Those two vocations and passions compliment each other perfectly and have become her life’s passion.

Ellen founded Beautiful Balance Inspirations as the result of an adoption process.  Ellen says, “The founding of the non-profit began many years ago as we adopted our youngest child, a daughter from India.  My good friend and classmate at Roberts, Hoinu Thirumalai Bunce, also adopted from India…We ended up using the same adoption agency and we both have beautiful daughters from Hoinu’s homeland. I have been partnered with her mother’s non-profit, Jesus India Christian Schools ever since.”

In 2019, Ellen and her daughter served at one of Jesus India Christian Schools’ partner programs in Delhi.  Her daughter couldn’t believe the poverty she saw and the fact that young girls were still being married at the age of 12.  Her response was to say to her mother, “Mom, can’t you do something when we get back?  We have to be able to help in some way.”

That experience began the process that led to her life’s passion:

“I took up the personal challenge and opened Beautiful Balance Inspirations. We started as a partner to the Delhi center and quickly grew to include a center in Liberia, Africa and Galati, Romania. All of our world centers are run exclusively by native/national founders. We want them to live their dreams of helping the poorest of the poor with no barriers to language and culture. They certainly love to have visitors from the USA and other places, but their heart is to run their centers as God would lead them to meet needs in their own culture, free from influences of the west. We just give them the financial resources to do what God would have them do. Currently, Beautiful Balance Inspirations is gaining momentum to sponsor a local youth writing contest. Our team thought the timing was right to have some local influence in an area of education that suited our expertise. I published my first lady’s faith book, Beautiful Balance, in 2018. Many of our team love to write, work on developing Bible studies and help in the area of education in our local community. We are excited and hope that more than 3,000 youth send in entries.”

Ellen and her family live in Saegertown, PA.  She has six adult children, four sons and two daughters. Ellen has been married to her high school sweetheart for 32 years and she has two beautiful grandkids, Anna, age 2 and her little brother Micah age 6 months.

To learn more about Beautiful Balance Inspirations, check out their website, YouTube Channel, and Facebook devotionals. 


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