George Liset
ELDER
George has been married to his wife Sylvia for forty four
years. George and Sylvia have three married grown
children. Jocelyn Gross, Reed Liset and Bacall Saracy, as
well as five grandchildren. George and Sylvia have been
attending DEC since 1986. We have been involved in
many different DEC ministries over the years including
teaching Sunday School, working with the youth, Vacation
Bible School , men’s and women's ministries, young
adults, and small group ministry.
George was the team chaplain for the UNH football
team for over twenty years. George and Sylvia were
involved with helping to start Athletes Intervarsity at UNH
which became the model for the start of AIV in every major
campus across the country. Locally George and Sylvia
had been on the ground floor of starting Young Life on the
Seacoast of New Hampshire.
George taught for 44 years and coached in Dover Public
Schools, Portsmouth Christian Academy and long-time
coach with the UNH Track and Field program.
Sylvia’s career was in food service sales, part-time as a
merchandiser when the children were born and now part-
time at a local antiques store!
George is a graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois with
a B.S, in Education and Biblical Studies and received a M.
Ed. from the University of New Hampshire. Sylvia received
her A.A.Science degree in Culinary Arts at The NH
Vocational-Technical College in Berlin, NH.