After I slowly read Freedom’s Stand, to try and assimilate every word and understand the surrounding elements of the story; from the cultural norm that the women have to endure, to their danger just walking the streets unescorted. What an eye-opening experience it is to journey through Freedom’s Stand. To better understand the back story and the amazing author behind the story you must read Jeanette Windle’s equally compelling interview. Here’s a small excerpt:
What is your greatest achievement?
Wow, that is quite a question since I’ve never considered anything I’ve done a particularly noteworthy accomplishment. Beyond the delights and challenges of raising to adulthood four children while maintaining reasonable sanity, I would say that the achievements that bring me most joy–and they are hardly mine, but God’s!–are the human souls, especially the children, I’ve seen come to Christ during thirty-plus years now of ministry. When I first opened a FaceBook account a year or so back, I was astounded to get an FB message from Bolivia, where we served in missions for sixteen years. The writer posted: “Do you remember when you were my AWANA commander in Sucre [Bolivian highlands]? When I was ten years old, you were the first person ever to tell me I could possibly become a pastor someday. I am sending you a picture of my church. I am now the senior pastor.”
As a non-techie, I will admit to reluctance in jumping on the social network bandwagon, but I have been delighted to hear from so many children and adults with whom I’ve ministered around the world who are now serving God in ministry, as pastors, even missionaries–and who most astoundingly now have access to internet and FaceBook in their distant corners of the planet. They are one achievement I can look forward to rejoicing over face-to-face when we all reach heaven-side.
You won’t want to miss reading the entire interview! If ever there was a book that should be used in Book Discussion Groups Veiled Freedom should be a first choice selection!
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For fun, here’s some of stats for the TOP 50 Fiction titles of 2010:
21 out of 50 books were Amish Fiction!
Beverly Lewis claimed the #1 and #2 spots for 2010
3 authors that had 3 books in the 2010 TOP 50:
Wanda Brunstetter
Kim Vogel Sawyer
Tracie Peterson
11 Authors had two books in the 2010 TOP 50:
Beverly Lewis
Francine Rivers
Suzanne Woods Fisher
Ted Dekker
Karen Kingsbury
Lori Copeland
Amy Clipston
Shelley Shepard Gray
Thomas Kincade/Katherine Spencer
Beth Wiseman
2 New Authors made their debut appearance in the TOP 50:
Kelly Long
Vanetta Chapman
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Two young children meet through their passion for Chopin. As children, they sneak into the music conservatory to write scores and play the piano and cello, totally in tune with one another. Clara comes from a privileged background; her father is an esteemed and quite famous reverend. Daniel’s father is killed in a boiler explosion and his mother succumbs to depression only months later, leaving Daniel to care for his younger sisters by himself. After years of separation, their story begins again. Elizabeth Camden captures your heart with every word she writes and leaves you wondering which part of the story is fact and which is fiction. What an impressive debut! Elizabeth Camden Interview.
The Corruptible
