[PDF] Growing Up In Gods Country eBook

Author : El McMeen
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1644382903

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A #1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON! El McMeen hails from rural Pennsylvania. His full name is “Elmer Ellsworth McMeen, III.” That’s a good name for a kid, El says, if you want him to learn how to fight in elementary school. El didn’t start so well. He wasn’t on the gravy train, more like in front of it, waiting to get run over. He nearly died at birth. He has cerebral palsy. He had a broken home. He was, in his own words, a “miscreant.” But his story is one of redemption. El became a “Wall Street lawyer,” an internationally acclaimed acoustic guitarist, and a Christian minister. He and his wife Sheila have four married children and three grandchildren. “The Lord became my GPS,” El says, “but in my case He still has to do a lot of ‘recalculating.’” Join El on his journey. He is a gifted storyteller. The road winds through physical disability, youthful misdeeds, family tragedy, Harvard University, Penn Law School, music, and the intricacies of law practice, with a lot of laughs along the way. From small-town life to New York City, and back. "Growing Up in God’s Country" is unabashedly evangelistic. It shows the amazing ways in which God moves in everyday lives. God has a sense of humor, too. If He didn’t, El says, where did ours come from?

Author : David McKain
Publisher : Univ of Georgia Press+ORM
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820349917

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In this award-winning memoir, a poet recalls his difficult childhood as the son of a poor lay preacher in a Pennsylvania mountain town. In Spellbound, David McKain brings readers inside the secret world of a boy growing up in "God's Country," a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains through the forties and fifties. His devoutly religious parents, overwhelmed by their own struggles, relinquished their son's upbringing to the town and the wooded slopes that encircled it. Cutting school, straying from Boy Scouts, dropping out of church choir, McKain maneuvered away from control and into the joys and trials of adolescent discovery. Winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, Spellbound is an unforgettable story of a family enmeshed in tenderness and poverty, faith, and affliction.

Author : El McMeen
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781959620358

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El McMeen is a musician, a minister, and a humorist. He loves the three M's: music, ministry, and mirth. This sequel to El's memoir from 2018, "Growing Up in God's Country." bursts with God-at-work moments in all three "M" areas.

Author : El McMeen
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644380147

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El McMeen hails from rural PA. He nearly died at birth. He has cerebral palsy. He had a broken home. He was a "miscreant." But his story is one of redemption. El became a "Wall Street lawyer," an internationally acclaimed acoustic guitarist, and a Christian minister. "The Lord became my GPS," El says, "but, in my case, He's still recalculating."

Author : Michael McCormick
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1639034293

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Living the country life has been enlightening and, at times, very exciting. Poor, yes, but we survived and were stronger for the experience. The best of times were those I spent in the outdoors roaming the woods and wading the streams. Nothing can compare to the glory of God’s creation. Every person needs to feel the soul-filling experience and beauty of God’s handiwork. Try it; you’ll like it!

Author : Russell S. Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781478268284

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“Steps into God's Country” begins with a child just learning about nature – to an adult who respects the land and what it has to offer. Russell Smith shows us how families teach their children about how to provide for themselves and their families while protecting the balance of nature. Heartwarming stories about growing up – that move on to stories about the experiences and dangers of communing with nature. Sharing his experiences in God's country with family, friends and strangers, Mr. Smith brings the reader into his world of hunting, fishing and the outdoors, and why he loves it. Learn, laugh, cry and enjoy as the 396 pages and 78 photographs guide you on a journey through one little boy's outdoor adventures as he becomes a grown man with children and grandchildren of his own. “I had a strong desire to get outside as a child and I didn't realize it was probably just something in my genes all along,” said Russell.Though Russell Smith has written hunting, fishing and outdoor stories for nearly thirty years, the book was only put together after a woman said, “I don't hunt and fish myself but I truly enjoy the human interest way you tell your stories.” “Steps into God's Country is a truly enjoyable read!” wrote Professional Angler and Outdoor Television Host Joe Thomas. “Russell's memory and attention to detail made me feel as if I were right there beside him every step of the way. As a fellow hunter and fisherman, I could truly relate to his passion for the Outdoors.” Will Primos, Founder of Primos Hunting, noted, “Russell writes with love for the life he has been so fortunate to lead. He writes about what influenced him as a young man growing up, how much his extended family meant to him, and his appreciation for being able to walk in God's country. This book chronicles all those things that make up a life well lived.”Have you ever seen a solid white jackrabbit in the wild? You will within the pages of Steps into God's Country. You will learn how the image was captured on film. Do you like to hunt and fish? The pages are filled with those accounts. If you enjoy history, there are pages and photos about families that crossed paths after they came to America to find their dreams. Included are accounts from the American Revolution to a life along Montell and Cedar Creeks and the Nueces River in Uvalde County, Texas. Do you recognize the names of Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson? They are there too. Have an interest in the American cowboy? Read Steps into God's Country.

Author : Stephanie Vandrick
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1788922344

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This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 ‘missionary kids’ – the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the Western colonial enterprise, and ways in which a colonial mindset is unconsciously manifested in these memoirs. The book explores how the memoirists’ sites and experiences are exoticized; the missionary kids’ likelihood of learning – or not learning – local languages; the missionary families’ treatment of servants and other local people; and gender, race and social class aspects of the missionary kids’ experiences. Like other Third Culture Kids, the memoirists are migrants, travelers, border-crossers and border-dwellers who alternate between insider and outsider statuses, and their words shed light on the effects of movement and travel on children’s lives and development.