I'm happy to announce that the wait for my latest book is almost over. As usual, it took about 18 months from the time I submitted the manuscript to the publisher to produce a finished book. This one should show up in bookstores sometime in September.
My brother Merle was always a good story teller. He wove many stories of his experiences during forty years in missions into his sermons. People kept telling him he should put some of those stories in a book but he didn't think he had the time to do that.
I told him to tell me the stories and I will write them. We began during the winter of 2017-18 and finished that spring. Because he is such a good story teller, it was one of the easiest books I've ever written. Of course, it is always easier to get information from a living person than to dig it out of old books and documents.
Merle left Pennsylvania in 1978 with a one-year commitment to serve at Northern Youth Programs as office manager. He never came back and is still in northwestern Ontario, although he now lives at Sioux Lookout. He took his family to Haiti in 1989 and spent that year working with a Haitian Mennonite church.
Merle is administrator of Open Hands which was launched in 2009. It is a ministry that helps people in poor countries learn to save and manage their money. This takes him around the world. The book contains stories from Merle's experiences in Canada, Haiti, India, Africa, Nepal, Thailand, and more.
Most of my books have been published by Christian Light in Virginia but after some deliberation I decided to give this one to TGS, an arm of Christian Aid Ministries, because some of the stories involve their organization.
This is the cover of the book Led By His Hand. Watch for it in your Christian bookstore or order from TGS, https://tgsinternational.com/.
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