Description
Walker Communications & Media Service [Published date: 1996]. Soft cover, 195 pp. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author on title page.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In acceptable condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Small square discolored patch on back cover from where price sticker was removed. Glued binding is brittle and cracked with a few pages starting to separate at the center of the book. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Excerpt from review in Crossroads magazine laid-in. A good reading copy. [From Crossroads review] A pastor exercising Christian humility usually recognizes that he receives as much as he gives. In that spirit, the Rev. Fred Davis' recently-issued book is subtitled The Education of a Country Pastor. Within his 200-page volume, the author revisits the ten churches he served, eight of which were arranged in pairs, in five dioceses. The visits are made in research as well as memory, with reunions in the years from 1993 to 1996 to bring the writer- and his readers - up to date on the current status of the churches. The Reverend Fred P. Davis, a long-time member of Rural Workers Fellowship, shares his ministry in a 200-page book dealing with his 27 years of full-time ministry in town and country churches. His account includes his nearly 10 years with three Indian tribes on two reservations . . .The day-to-day, and move-to-move, activities of a priest who chooses to work with rural and minority congregations can't help but be interesting to an audience of fellow churchmen, lay and ordained. Fr. Davis has kept in mind the fact that it is the wonderful variety of God's people that is true to fascinate, however, and it is those vignettes of life and personality that truly enliven this book. . . "What have I learned from these 27 fully active years of trying to serve the Lord and His People? . . . If we examine I our lives' ins and outs and ups and downs carefully," Fr. Davis writes, "we can sense (if not fully discern) God's hand nudging and sometimes painfully poking us along the course that He prefers that we go."