Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Sold Out!
So, I hear that the Regent College Bookstore has sold out again! I know that they order thirty copies at a time of my book Walking Towards Hope and this has got to be the fifth or even sixth time they have sold out! They have no copies left in stock - and they have a back-list of customers waiting! If you are one of those who want the book NOW, just drop me an email and I will send you one ($19.95 + 4.00 mailing costs) .
Book sales are clearly doing well here in Vancouver BC and across Canada, and into the US and England. But more than that - so very much more! - I have prayed that God would anoint this book for ministry... and I believe that he has. How do I know? Simple really... I keep getting emails, letters and cards from people who have been blessed by reading it.
One of those is Joni Earickson-Tada who wrote to tell that a particular phrase had leaped off the page to comfort her one night as she struggled with a bout of severe back pain and sleeplessness. Then there was the request from Terry Waite's secretary that he receive a copy of the book. You will maybe remember that he spent three years as a hostage in Beirut while working as ambassador for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
But most of my readers are ordinary people not known to the Press. Like the local blind lady who called me to say that she has already paid for the book to be recorded as a "talking book" for the Christian Blind Mission International - but would I like to be the voice that reads it?. So during this month of August I will be sitting down to read the book aloud, from cover to cover, into a digital recording device.
Last week, I started on Monday with a print media interview by phone with a journalist from Quadra Island, BC for the Scripture Press Adult Sunday School paper "Power for Living." The issue in focus was hope following a catastrophic loss. Of course, that is precisely the main focus of Walking Towards Hope. Then I finished my week with another phone interview with a reporter from Ontario on a related theme, my work as a military Chaplain. Hope is a critical issue for soldiers preparing to go to, or return from, a deployment to Afghanistan. Their losses are identical to my own as I describe them in my book.
Well, what about you? Have you read the book yet? How has it spoken to you? And what about the issue of hope? What damages your hope? What nurtures it when things have gone badly wrong? And where is God in all of this for you? Why not write your response for others to share here on this Blog? And thanks for taking the time to look in.
Blessings,
Paul.
Book sales are clearly doing well here in Vancouver BC and across Canada, and into the US and England. But more than that - so very much more! - I have prayed that God would anoint this book for ministry... and I believe that he has. How do I know? Simple really... I keep getting emails, letters and cards from people who have been blessed by reading it.
One of those is Joni Earickson-Tada who wrote to tell that a particular phrase had leaped off the page to comfort her one night as she struggled with a bout of severe back pain and sleeplessness. Then there was the request from Terry Waite's secretary that he receive a copy of the book. You will maybe remember that he spent three years as a hostage in Beirut while working as ambassador for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
But most of my readers are ordinary people not known to the Press. Like the local blind lady who called me to say that she has already paid for the book to be recorded as a "talking book" for the Christian Blind Mission International - but would I like to be the voice that reads it?. So during this month of August I will be sitting down to read the book aloud, from cover to cover, into a digital recording device.
Last week, I started on Monday with a print media interview by phone with a journalist from Quadra Island, BC for the Scripture Press Adult Sunday School paper "Power for Living." The issue in focus was hope following a catastrophic loss. Of course, that is precisely the main focus of Walking Towards Hope. Then I finished my week with another phone interview with a reporter from Ontario on a related theme, my work as a military Chaplain. Hope is a critical issue for soldiers preparing to go to, or return from, a deployment to Afghanistan. Their losses are identical to my own as I describe them in my book.
Well, what about you? Have you read the book yet? How has it spoken to you? And what about the issue of hope? What damages your hope? What nurtures it when things have gone badly wrong? And where is God in all of this for you? Why not write your response for others to share here on this Blog? And thanks for taking the time to look in.
Blessings,
Paul.
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