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Virginia Foster finds herself a retired empty nester in her hometown of Abundance, a small city in Upstate South Carolina. She and her husband are affluent members of the community, but she is concerned about its future and spearheads a festival to bring attention and jobs back to Abundance. As she and her team of fellow retirees work to build a successful festival—based around biscuits because the town got its name from Abundance Mills Flour Company--they face opposition from a local preacher, the art community, and the town’s maven of baby beauty pageants. However, Virginia has ...

Unraveled Threads: The Journey of Rebuilding My Life is Volume V in the acclaimed SurvivingHer anthology series. Visionary Cathy Staton and seven courageous co-authors open their hearts to share real stories of grief, resilience, and healing after life’s deepest unravelings. From sudden loss to cancer battles, divorce, abandonment, and the slow work of rebuilding, each chapter is a testimony to the power of faith, endurance, and the God who weaves broken pieces into something beautiful. This collection is both raw and restorative, offering hope to every woman who has wondered if her story...

On a hot, dry Middle Eastern day a lone rabbi stranger from across the Jewish border asks a world-weary local woman for a cup of water. Centuries of animosity and religious ideology stand behind their conversation about God, worship, human need, and the future. Their dialogue in John 4 is often studied and often misunderstood, as is the woman in the middle of it and the Messiah who is leading it. This study of the encounter between Jesus Christ and the "Samaritan woman" in John 4 is designed for individual and group study and discussion. Its six chapters can be divided into an eight weeks ...

The third in a series, The Gospel According to Philemon takes a deep dive into the short, 25-verse letter tucked in away in the New Testament. Three characters: an apostle, a runaway slave, and a wealthy and influential early church leader who also happens to be a slave owner. What do they have in common? The gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is going to change some lives. This 83-page book includes background, scholarship, study helps, and discussion/reflection prompts.

A study in the Book of Daniel about Daniel's leadership principles lived out in a pagan empire as a model for Christians who lead in secular, public, and business organizations. In 15 short chapters the author, a higher educational professional with 40 years teaching, ministry, and leadership experience, examines the facets of Daniel's and his companions' lives in Babylon after being imprisoned as conquered Jewish young men. The book addresses the demands of leadership, the call to leadership, the daily needs of leaders, and the ethical bases for leaders. Chapters include "A leader learns,"...

"I am the Resurrection and the Life." These words of Jesus are often heard, but where do they come from? What was the context? Who heard Him say these words? This 85-page study, takes a deep look into John 11, where Jesus is confronted with two grieving sisters whose brother has died. The human emotions of loss, grief, and doubt and the historical/cultural background of first-century Jerusalem are explored to gain a better understanding of what it means that Jesus is "the Resurrection and the Life" and how the account connects to the gospel.

Second in a series of mysteries involving small-town newspaper editor Scott Wallace, who observes, records, and sometimes helps the local police with crimes in Pierce's Crossing, Georgia.

Explores the work and lives of creators and creative people in the Northwest Georgia and Tennessee valley region. We feature guests in a variety of creative fields ranging anywhere from writers, comedians, actors, and more. Listen as we discuss the way creativity can surprise us.

Water for People, Not for Profit was a Panel Discussion at the Boston Social Forum. The panel featured spirited presentations from Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Forum on Religion and Ecology; Maureen Taylor of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; and Barbara Garson, author of Money Makes the World Go Round: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, From Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back. Arnie Alpert of AFSC's New Hampshire Office chaired the panel.

One night on a college campus changed everything for her...and for her son. Carlie Geraldson and her children, Josiah and Emily, travel cross-country to Brownsville, where her husband will become the new pastor of a church. What will the church be like? Carlie wonders. Will my children-both of them-be accepted by the congregation? And will she finally be able to push past what happened to her on a dark moonlit night in South Carolina? As Carlie and her family approaches their new home, Esther Lundy surveys the tomato plants in her garden as a moving truck pulls up in her neighborhood. ...

Barbara G. Tucker is the author of six novels: A Family’s Journey Trilogy: Traveling Through, Cross Road, and Legacy, published by OakTara Press The Unexpected Christmas Visitors, Bringing Abundance Back, and now, Long Lost Family, the first in the series of mysteries "Long Lost Stories" Bringing Abundance Back She has also published Leading in a Strange Land: Studies in Daniel and Leadership. She is the co-author of Exploring Public Speaking, a Creative Commons licensed textbook, and editor of an academic journal. Barbara lives in a community in Northwest Georgia outside of Chattanooga, ...

In 1959, a church in Pierce's Crossing, GA, burned to the ground, killing a civil rights leaders and his wife. No one has ever come to justice for this arson of an historic church, bult by freed slaves. Who did it? Why and how was it covered up? Are the killers still alive? Sixty years later, Scott Wallace, editor of the town newspaper, is approached by the new pastor of the church to write articles about the commemoration of the crime. She also wants the investigation opened. Scott and his staff become investigators and characters in this drama to bring justice to the community.

Virginia Foster is an empty nester who takes on the mission of bringing her town, Abundance, South Carolina, back from economic doldrums after the disappearance of cotton mills in the 1990s. The answer: a festival to bring attention and jobs back to Abundance. As she and her team of fellow retirees work to build the first South Carolina Biscuit Festival (because the town got its name from Abundance Mills Flour Company), they face opposition from a local preacher, the art community, and the town’s maven of baby beauty pageants. And Virginia finds out the mysteries behind her family--who ...

The Knowles family looks about as secure, middle-American, comfortable, and happy as can be. That is, until November 8 comes around. A refugee couple from Iraq comes to stay with them unexpectedly and teaches them a new meaning of faith, Christmas, and giving. Lee and Roberta, the parents of teenagers Becca, Ryan, and Sarah, find out they will be hosting a refugee couple from a Middle-Eastern country. And Lee, a high school principal, is about to be brought into a lawsuit by a parent who objects to the Christmas festivities of Lee's school. The Knowles will maneuver a Christmas they didn't ...