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Current Friends periodicals, including:
The Quaker Bonnet

Chose one book from any four of the following categories
(You will read a total of FOUR books.):

• Foreign Missions
  
• Home Missions
  
• Stewardship/Devotions
  
• Friends (Quakers)
  
• Family & Social Relations
  
• Fiction
  

Vision for God - Brand, Dr. Margaret E.

This amazing true story of Dr. Margaret tells how her life as a mother of six children is intertwined with her amazing skills as a surgeon. She worked on the eyes of patients in India going blind due to leprosy which was common in the area where they worked. She later became Chief of Ophthalmology at a National Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana.

End of the Spear - Saint, Steve

Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by the Waodani warriors. Years later Steve and his family made the difficult choice to leave a comfortable life in the United States and return to the jungle to live among this tribe. Steve’s incredible true story is one that you will not want to put down.

Faith Like Potatoes - Buchan, Angus

This is a fascinating read of a modern day missionary
who walks alongside God all over South Africa
spreading the gospel of good news.

When Invisible Children Sing - Huang, Chi

Pediatrician and internist Huang is a self-described angry man who traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, to work in the streets as a fourth-year Harvard medical student in 1997. He wanted to do something about the thousands of Bolivian children who live in filth, disease, and squalor. He learned, among other things, that street children are far from innocent. But that doesn't begin to justify, he says, their unspeakable living conditions.

Just Walk Across the Room - Hybels, Bill

In this inspiring book Bill Hybels tells us how to involve and include lost people so that we can share the gospel with them. If taking 10 steps across a room could point someone toward faith it might change the way that you walk.

Bridge Called Hope - Meeder, Kim                   

Kim Meeder is the co-founder and director of Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch in Oregon. Her first book Hope Rising propelled the ranch to win the national Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award. On the ranch abused and dying horses are paired with children in need. She says “Sometimes just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves.”

Mercy Streets - Field, Taylor

Taylor Field’s vision has been changed. His eyes see differently. Inner city life is to blame. The city streets, and more pointedly, the life on the city streets, has brought about an enlightenment to his eyes. He now sees life where he thought there was no life, hope where one would assume there was no hope, and beauty in the ashes of humanity.

A Thousand Small Sparrows - Leeland, Jeff                   

In 1992, Jeff and Kristi Leeland’s infant son, Michael, needed a bone marrow transplant. It cost $200,000 they didn’t have. That’s when Dameon, the most picked-on kid in the junior high where Jeff taught, emptied his bank account and handed Jeff twelve $5 bills to help save Michael’s life. Other students rallied behind Dameon’s $60 donation of hope--and a community rallied behind them. In less than four weeks, they raised over $227,000 for Michael’s life-saving transplant.

Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwanda Holocaust - Ilibagiza, Immaculee

In 1994 when Imamaculee was 22 years old and home from college for her Easter vacation. the death of Rwanda’s Hutu president started the slaughter of nearly one million ethnic Tutsis. Immaculee survived by hiding in a tiny bathroom, 4’ by 3’. with 7 other starving women for 91 cramped, terrifying days. During this time she not only learned to pray, but to forgive those who killed most of her family and sought to find and kill her. This is one of the most amazing stories on the value of prayer that you will ever read.

My Prince will Come - Shepherd, Sheri Rose                          

It’s a love story beyond the most amazing fairy tale. Come now and get to know your Prince. Prepare for the day when you will finally meet Jesus--your Prince--face-to-face. Sheri Rose Shepherd was crowned in 1994 as Mrs. United States of America. In this book she shares how God carried her from a dysfunctional home where she battled depression and an eating disorder to a place in the kingdom as a daughter of the King.

One Month To Live - Shook, Kerry & Cris

“Kerry and Chris Shook are world-class leaders whose lives and ministry have impacted untold numbers of people, including me. Regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey, One Month to Live will challenge you to passionately live the life you were made for and leave an eternal legacy.”
–Bill Hybels, Founding Pastor,
Willowcreek Church and bestselling author of Too Busy Not to Pray

Let Your Life Count - Parton, Donna

Women want to live lives that count, says popular author and speaker Partow (Becoming the Woman I Want to Be and This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For). "All we have to do is let God work through us," she says. Partow runs with this thought and encourages Christian women to take small, steady steps toward the goal. She tells women to begin praying, not begging God for opportunities but instead listening to what He has to say. She also urges them to ask God to "show [them] what to do today," find their "holy compulsion," "do it afraid" (serve in spite of their fears) and "develop a marathon mentality."

Experiencing the Great I Am
- Heflin, Bryant & Cindy, editors

While God never promises a life free of adversity, it does promise that He will never leave us alone or unprotected. This book relates the experiences of forty believers as they confront some of life’s trials, and will bolster your faith in God.                     

Between Heaven and Ground Zero - Haskin, Leslie           

Leslie Haskin was one of 15 children of a Baptist minister in Chicago. Her drive for success, however, led her to leave the faith of her childhood and climb the corporate ladder in New York City. Here she became one of only two African Americans to hold an executive title in a large insurance company. She says about herself., “I had a big title, a bigger salary, and a huge ego.” On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 she was on the 36th floor on Tower One of the World Trade Center when her life was changed completely.

Dream Big - King, Patricia

At middle age, you are only half finished with God's plan for you! All the hard lessons you learned in the first half of your life serve as a springboard for the fulfillment of your dreams in the second half! Is middle age the beginning of the end or the beginning of the better half of life? Life does not end at 40, 60, or 80 it flourishes and gains momentum as you recognize the destiny God designed for all of your days. Start today living the better half of life!

Into the Deep - Rogers, Robert

On the evening of August 30, 2003, Robert and Melissa Rogers and their four young children were driving home from a family wedding. Caught in a flash flood, Melissa and the children all drowned. Into the Deep is the compelling story of how one man's faith took root and blossomed through trials, blessings, and a deepening trust in God.

The View From Here - Crisp, David

The author uses humor and everyday life experiences to effectively communicate timeless scriptural truths that challenge and inspire both the believer and the seeker. Drawing from time he spent growing up on a farm in western Kansas, a season as a Deputy Sheriff, 15 years serving as the pastor of a growing suburban church, and lessons learned from 27 years of marriage and raising two sons, David Crisp weaves together home-spun humor, common sense and Biblical truth into a comfortable patch-work quilt of a devotional book that sometimes evokes a grin, sometimes a tear, but always interesting and introspective thoughts about life while keeping a consistent focus on Christ.

Compassion; The Painful Privilege - Nolta, Dan

Dan Nolta grew up in a family torn apart by alcohol and divorce. As a teenager friends got him to attend Medford (Oregon) Friends Church and he became a Christian. The author later became police chaplain for 2 counties in the Tacoma, Washington area. Here his responsibilities gave him the opportunity to work with many hurting people, and to develop the compassion he so capably writes about.

Citizenship; a Christian Calling - Fendall, Lon

Lon Fendall is dean of undergraduate studies at George Fox University. At one time he served as legislative director and campaign manager for U. S. Senator Mark Hatfield. He takes us to the scripture as well as to modern lessons some people have learned in their lives of public service, thus encouraging us to also become involved.

Saving Women from the Church:
How Jesus Mends a Divide - Mcleod-Harrison, Susan

Creatively matching stories of contemporary women and biblical stories of the interactions between Jesus and women, Susan McLeod-Harrison exposes the cultural biases of Jesus' day that created a divide between women and men. And she shows Jesus' response: He shunned cultural or religious expectations when they denigrated or limited women, and acknowledged the full humanity and dignity of women.

Straightforward, unapologetic, and engaging, Saving Women from the Church shows how Jesus offers hope and healing to women who have been alienated, wounded, controlled, or troubled by the church. This book will improve your vision of the full image of God in women.

Divine - Kingsbury, Karen

As a child Mary Madison had to live through unspeakable horrors. Now a divine power has set Mary free, and she brings life changing hope and love to battered and abused women in the nation’s capitol. Mary is now educated and is a powerful voice in Washington, D.C. not only to the politicians but also to women in the area that need the message and love of Jesus.

Where Willows Grow - Sawyer, Kim Vogel      

After enduring a depression and drought, Anna Mae Phipps and her husband, Harley, can barely feed the two daughters they have--how will they afford another baby? Though Anna Mae is furious when Harley sells the mules and takes a job building a castle in another part of Kansas with the Works Progress Administration, she eventually realizes it was their only hope. But when no letters arrive from Harley, Anna Mae fears her husband may be gone for good. The drought has stolen everything from her--will it take Harley, too?

The Wednesday Letters - Wright, Jason     

Jack and Laurel Cooper are two hardworking, loving Christian pillars of the community who die in each other's arms one night in the bed-and-breakfast that they own and operate. The event calls their three grown children home for the funeral, including their youngest son, a fugitive from the law who must face an outstanding warrant for his arrest and confront his one true love, now engaged to another man. As events unfold around the funeral, the three children discover a treasure trove of family history in the form of Wednesday letters-notes that Jack wrote to his wife every single week of their married lives.

Roberta Leininger
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Haviland, KS 67059
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