Born and raised in Zimbabwe, in a family of seven children, she has raised many nephews and nieces. She grew up in a home under the care of her mother who struggled to raise and educate seven children all by herself, as the father had deserted them and went to live in a neighboring country. This experience planted in her sensitivity towards children who need care, and needy children have always been a big part of her life.  Elesinah is a direct product of missionary work. She received Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at age fourteen. At the age of eighteen she had a definite and clear calling to full-time ministry and ever since has been involved in church ministry in some way. Elesinah says when she gave her life to the Lord, she sang these words to Him: “’Take my moments and my days, take my hands and my feet, take my voice and my lips’; even before I had anything, I sang to the Lord, take my silver, my gold and my intellect, and He did just that. I also said to Him take my will and my heart, and that He did as well. Then and now I continue to sing, ‘Lord take myself, and I will be ever only all for You’.” In 1976 Elesinah went to North America to continue studying at Spring Arbor University in Michigan, then on to Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, returning to Zimbabwe in 1982.  She has taught Systematic Theology at the Evangelical Seminary of South Africa in Pietermatitizburg along with courses in New Testament and was also appointed Director of Student Affairs.

In August 2004 Elesinah joined MMD-South Africa as course producer and Coordinator of Women’s Ministry for MMD. In 2010, in response to the tremendous desire of several churches, she began facilitating MMD courses in Zimbabwe.

Elesinah says her coming to MMD ministry was a direct leading of the Lord. Although she loved lecturing and the students, two years before she left the seminary she sensed a need to change the ministry assignment. She kept this to herself and the Lord as she wanted to be careful not to step out of the Lord's will, all the while feeling that the area of her ministry needed to expand. MMD provides the opportunity for her to minister to more people than she would at the seminary, and through her writing she is reaching people whom she might not even get to meet in this life.