Rachel's Voice: 180

Rachel's Voice: 180: Yesterday, I watched an incredible movie. "180" is a movie that has the potential to make you do a 180 turn in your thinking. Please, please watch it...

I took Rachel's advice and watched the video. It's powerful and so well put together. It needs to spread like wildfire, so please take the time to watch it as well and then spread the word.

Ghosts of the Forest

A friend sent me a captivating video clip of a newscast out of Wisconsin about the White Deer population. I thought it was fascinating, so I wanted to share it with all of you.

Click below to see the video,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=inwi10s22a3q81f

CFBA: A Wedding Invitation by Alice Wisler

Song Stuck on the Brain: Little Wild One by the Wonders (From the movie That Thing You Do)

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing:





A Wedding Invitation

Bethany House (October 1, 2011)





by





Alice Wisler

MY TAKE:

Unfortunately, I haven't received my review copy yet, but when I do, I will be back to post a review. In the meantime, take a peak at this weeks book.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life working at her mother's clothing boutique in Falls Church, Virginia. When she receives an invitation to a wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she looks forward to reconnecting with her college friend. Instead her life collides with Carson, a fellow teacher and the man who broke her heart, and a young Amerasian refugee named Lien who needs Samantha and Carson's help to find her mother before Lien's own wedding. When the search for Lien's mother reveals surprising secrets from the past, Samantha must reevaluate her own memories and decide whether to continue to play it safe or take a risk that could change her life.

If you would like to read the first chapter of A Wedding Invitation, go HERE.

Watch the book trailer:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alice was born in Osaka, Japan in the sixties. Her parents were Presbyterian career missionaries. As a young child, Alice loved to walk down to the local stationer's store to buy notebooks, pencils and scented erasers. In her room, she created stories. The desire to be a published famous author has never left her. Well, two out of three isn't bad. She's the author of Rain Song, How Sweet It Is, Hatteras Girl and A Wedding Invitation (all published by Bethany House).

Alice went to Eastern Mennonite University after graduating from Canadian Academy, an international high school in Kobe, Japan. She majored in social work and has worked across the U.S. in that field. She taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Japan and at a refugee camp in the Philippines. She also studied Spanish at a language institute in San Jose, Costa Rica.

She has four children--Rachel, Daniel, Benjamin and Elizabeth. Daniel died on 2/2/97 from cancer treatments at the age of four. Since then, Alice founded Daniel's House Publications in her son's memory. This organization reaches out to others who have also lost a child to death. In 2000 and 2003, Alice compiled recipes and memories of children across the world to publish two memorial cookbooks, Slices of Sunlight and Down the Cereal Aisle.

The other me's are dwindling...

Some of you may have noticed a little white and blue box in the side bar that says there are 23 April Erwins in the USA. I thought that was a fun little fact a couple of years back when I posted it.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if any New April Erwins had been added to the list, so I searched again. Here's what I found.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I'm so sad! Our numbers are dwindling. Does this mean that 3 of us have passed on to a better place in that great beyond? Or just a different country?

Search Stories

Author Kaye Dacus posted a fun video on her facebook page today using a new app through youtube.com called search stories.






I thought it would be fun to do one of my own. So here is my little masterpiece. :)