J. W. Hardie

The Magnificent Adventure

A Search for Meaning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dan Keaton, is the primary owner and CEO of Keaton Manufacturing Company. The company has developed revolutionary high tech farm machinery, which has introduced major changes in farming methods. Keaton finds, however, that while he has been recognized as a very successful businessman, he is forced to realize he has been a failure as a husband and father. His family seems to be falling apart. George Caroco, his Vice-President of the Company's new, International Marketing Division, helps Keaton discover that Jesus Christ is alive and is able to change lives and circumstances. Keaton begins to discover this to be true, and finds his life undergoing exciting changes. Characters in the story experience a number of faith testing events, as they seek to expand the business to the Middle East, where poverty abounds, there is exploding population growth, and nations are in chaos. There are widespread political power plays, and threats of war ever present. Why would Keaton Manufacturing Company want to start business operations in such an area of the world as this? The story explains why. The story weaves magnificent adventures in the lives of the various characters as they face challenging and difficult situations. While it is a very heart warming and uplifting adventure story, it does raise questions and explores concepts that challenge long accepted ways of thinking about the Christian life and the church. It asks questions that demand answers, other than, "But, we have always done it this way." It dares to ask "What is the real meaning of life?" Through the characters, the story deliberately introduces thought provoking questions and issues, and also suggests positive alternative ways of looking at what the Christian life can and should be. It is the kind of story readers will likely want to read again a second time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9781420897449
• ISBN-10: 1420897446
• Artikelnr.: 22188996

Autorenporträt

Jim Hardie, was born a Texan in Galveston, Texas. He enlisted in the Marines in WW2 and experienced combat in the pacific theatre. He was discharged from the Marines at a Naval Air Station in the Pacific Northwest and fell in love with the Northwest. He returned home to Texas for a short time, but then returned to Wenatchee, Washington where he worked for a year and then attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Later Jim attended graduate school at the University of Washington. He has earned three degrees. Jim served with, The Navigators organization for two years after college. He then entered the field of education. He has served as a classroom teacher, a school district supervisor, and for six years he served as Supervisor of Audiovisual/Television Services, and later as Administrator of Educational Communications Services, at the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia, Washington. Jim then accepted the position as Coordinator of Instructional Television Services at Washington State University for sixteen years. While at WSU, Jim and his wife Marlys, served several years as part-time volunteer staff with International Students, Inc. Their son, Greg, and his family live in Oklahoma where Greg heads a Christian school. Jim served for ten years as Director of ASSIST, an organization which focused on helping Christians learn to be positive witnesses for Christ in the workplace. The organization published journals, newsletters, held workshops and seminars emphasizing the principle of "Tentmaking" as modeled by the Apostle Paul, who often worked as a businessman on his missionary journeys, making tents. This novel deals with businessmen and women experiencing the magnificent adventure of discovering there is a higher calling for each of us, and it can be found right where we spend a major part of our lives...in the workplace.