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Craig Allen Cardon was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2006. He served as a member of the Africa West Area presidency, an assistant executive director in the Priesthood and Family Department, the editor of Church magazines, and as a member of the Pacific Area presidency. He became an Emeritus General Authority in 2018. He chaired committees in the Priesthood and Family Department that, under the direction of the Twelve Apostles, developed the new "Come, Follow Me" church curriculum and the new children and youth initiatives. These experiences informed much of what he shares in Growing Up unto the Lord. He received an Accounting degree from Arizona State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Methodological Area of Concentration in Leadership and was named a Littauer Fellow. Prior to his call in 2006 he was an entrepreneur with multiple business interests. Craig Allen Cardon was born in 1948. He married Deborah L. Dana in 1970. They are the parents of eight children. As of 2020 they have 46 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.