When I felt God leading me out of journalism toward missions, I reflected on the following: By evening, the newspapers we worked so hard to produce were being used to wrap garbage.
This book is about the life of a woman who had been sexually abused in her childhood and with the help of the Lord had been able to rise above the pain of her past.
This memoir begins with the story of a young girl who left an abusive home at the age of twelve, hopped a train box car, and began a life journey that led her down many paths.
Johnny Zapata had always lived a simple life as the son of migrant workers during the 1960s and 1970s-until a month and ten days after his sixteenth birthday.
An uncompromising and heretical priest's diary exploring the meaning of life and death, success and failure, religion and magic, and instituional Churchianity.
Using the backdrop of such far-flung places as the west coast of South Africa, the Highlands of Scotland, and the Eiffel Tower, the author introduces the reader to three people who entered and exited his life over twelve years: a gigantic Zulu he befriended during military training, a six-year-old African war orphan he sponsored in memory of that friend, and a twenty-four-year-old woman he met in Scotland.
This book tells in brief the fifty years my in-laws served in Africa as pioneer missionaries and how our life for forty-one years after theirs was different, because of independence of African countries, as well as modernization.
Valerie Gabrielle Moore was a woman who seemed to have it all togethera beginning teacher who was coming into her own, a woman with loving parents and family members, and an owner of a new condo.
In this book, the author presents her own life story and the challenges of faith in God and commitment to her calling; presents her own path of destiny, which prompts the reader to examine his/her life purpose; demonstrates compelling reasons to support those in the mission field to fulfill the Great Commission; demonstrates how just one can significantly impact many; and demonstrates how to perform brainstorming, affinity diagramming, and life mapping exercises so the reader can more readily identify their future.
