The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Streets

Richardson-Moore, Deb

ISBN 10: 085721229X / ISBN 13: 9780857212290

Verlag: Lion Hudson, 2012

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 085721229X-3-22137982

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How a nice, 50-something lady quit a good career to pastor a church in a tough neighbourhood. Full of colour and incident, this is a testament to messy grace and the presence of the Spirit in the hard places of the world. For 27 years Deb was a journalist in Greenville, South Carolina. Then she retrained as a Baptist pastor, and accepted a post at Triune Mercy Center, a run-down inner-city church. It proved a shock. All preconceived notions had to be set aside as Deb spent long hours working with the cranky staff to dispense food, clothes, medicines and respect to the street people of Greenville. Gradually she started to learn whom she could trust. Sometimes the best person to handle a situation might themselves be a drug addict. Sometimes Jesus had the face of a black girl who worked the streets. Then the street people started to trust her too . . .

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Deb Richardson-Moore is a former national award-winning journalist, who became a pastor of the Triune Mercy Center in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. She is the author of the succesful Branigan Powers Mysteryseries. Deb is a popular speaker at book clubs, universities and colleges. She has also won numerous awards for her philanthropy and community involvement, including the 2014 Women Making History Award from the Greenville Cultural Exchange Center and the 2016 Public& Community Service Award from the Atlantic Institute. A graduate of Wake Forest University, Deb and her husband live in South Carolina.

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Titel: The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the ...
Verlag: Lion Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good