- Genre:religion
- Sub-genre:Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
- Language:English
- Pages:628
- eBook ISBN:9781667857909
- Paperback ISBN:9781667857893
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A spiritual journey of the author, based on his paternal and maternal heritage of China missionaries and pastors; the stories and lessons learned, based on his destitute father's growing up in a boxcar in Canada, to becoming a China missionary with the author's mother and family; the author's own spiritual struggle in going from 'missionary kid,' to his own musical and academic successes...and failures, to finally becoming a pastor, missionary, counselor, husband, and father, in a life filled with recovery, ministry, and hope.
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A spiritual journey of the author, based on both his international paternal and maternal heritage as a pastor, counselor, and child of three-generational China and Alaska missionaries, pastors, teachers and musicians and counselors; the exciting story of Hungarian and Chinese influences, even a fictitious tie-in to the biblical story of a runaway Sythian slave who becomes a follower of 'The Way' with the Apostle Paul, to later becoming the Bishop of Ephesus - the real live story of the author's immigrant and destitute Hungarian father having to live in a boxcar in Canada, but who becomes a pastor and missionary to China; the stories and life's lessons learned, become the focus of a spiritual, musical, and academic detour that ends with a change of course in life - that is exciting and fulfilling, and the author becoming a pastor, musician, and counselor himself, in reconciliation with his father and family.
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