Mildred Anderson

Beyond All This (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A compelling and often humorous saga that spans more than three decades to chronicle hurt and leanness, struggle and triumph.

How a fifty-nine year-old woman cast her lot with the mountain people of Haiti and suffered through drought and flood, hurricane and want, to help them find a better way.

The mission Bertha "Granny" Holdeman helped start at Fermathe in Haiti began on a plot blighted by voodoo curse. Today, it ministers to countless people, providing hope as well as help.

From Eleanor... "I really think it is very hard to tell about Granny. She is something that one feels and from her spirit each gains a different inspiration and light. She is like an impressionist painting, yet at the same time solid and tangible, always there and timeless.

We pray that her story will share her and Haiti with others, and through it show forth Him who has made Granny what she is and to Whom she has a single eye." (From a letter from Eleanor Turnbull, Granny's daughter in Haiti.)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Light Messages Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611530360
• Artikelnr.: 41532006

Autorenporträt

This is the author's first sounder, if one counts producing a book under cover as Mildred Anderson's one journalistic achievement after spending most of her life in the field. Along with her doctor-husband-editor, Wick, Mildred helped publish a medical journal, a weekly newspaper, and many other periodicals over more than three decades. When asked why she never wrote a book, she twits, "We were too busy producing a first edition to write about it." Looking back over those busy years of life in a small Mississippi town with her husband whose practice was mostly rural, and who helped run his town almost as a one-man chamber of commerce (yet who was listed in Who's Who in America 1937-1969), she recalls, "I was twirling in half a dozen roles. One needs leisure to write. My day and I were indeed overspent if I had kept the presses running, helped Wick prevent or promote certain civic happenings, depended on Koot to add the right amount of water to extend the soup for two unexpected legislators who stayed for lunch, answered the phone all hours, and touched base with daughters Jane and Nancy."

Now, with life less strenuous, to have the privilege of writing about my long-time friend, this wonderfully heroic woman who has spent thirty-odd years of her mature life swabbing the sores and showing The Way in perhaps the darkest corner of our hemisphere, has been an excursion of joy.

"And may you, dear reader, find a day with Granny Holdeman and the Turnbulls enrichingly delightsome...and perhaps one happy day even find yourself sharing the heartbeat and an unforgettable evening with the other guests and celebrities around Eleanor's table at the mission at Fermathe."