Get Money Do Good by J.D. Vermaas

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

Once you have enough money, how do you invest yourself? This story of an unusual couple and their children will warm your heart and help you think in new ways about charity and altruism. 

Across continents, across governments, and across cultures, the Vermaas family includes those others consider least-wanted and throwaways. There's heartache, heartbreak, healing, and hope in these pages.

Recommended for those - with or without worldly resources - who don't know how to change the world. This book reminds us to be who we are and all we are with God's help, one child and one adventure at a time.

The Reluctant Pioneer by Julie McDonald Zander

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 
What if you are given no choice but to join your family on a cross-country trip on the Oregon Trail, far away from home?

How do you thrive and survive deaths and challenges and new places when your resources are limited and life is uncertain? Mathilda, Nicolas, and their children set off from Missouri to Oregon. Bolstered by their faith in God, they meet tragedy, new friends, and new love.

The core story comes from historical events, embellished with what life might have been life in the 1800s. Recommended for readers who like history, adventure, and family, mixed with strong stories of trust in God.

Imagining All Generations by Wilson McCoy

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 
A thoughtful and much-needed review of the effects of generational separation in the church. Why are young people less engaged and leaving the faith? The author debunks the assumed benefits of segregation by age and interest, based on the results of the past decades.

McCoy provides a way forward to healthier and more sustainable ministry through intergenerational learning and activities. Well worth discussing with your church leaders and your ministry teams.

Unrig the Game by Vanessa Priya Daniel

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 
How do women in leadership thrive? What can they teach us about getting done what needs doing? How do they live out their calling, with the additional challenge of being women of color?

Three superpowers in 20 essays, along with mini masterclasses. Well worth adding to your leadership reading list - and referencing on your shelf.

We Don't Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 
Carol disappeared decades ago. As people go missing, there's no trace of where they've gone. 

Carol's niece is a journalist who decides to solve the mystery of why happened to her aunt. When clues start to add up, details start to align, can justice be around the corner?

Tragedies and dark family mysteries that resolve with grief, love, and hope. Well worth considering, in light of the many persons who go missing in the USA each year.

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad

Essays on creativity and effect. Each chapter ends with a prompt that gives you meditations or actions to build your creative stamina and artistic breadth.

Jaouad has gathered thinkers, artists, and innovators in a volume of inspiration. Use their ideas to journal your way to the next season of invention. Amazing resource! (PS You don't have to agree with everyone to learn from them.)

How to Fast by Reward Sibanda

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 
Fasting can change the way our hearts respond to God. Humility that allows faith to arise is one of the results of fasting. This is the beginning of God' s work in and through us. Sibanda offers practical foundations for short and long fasts. How do you break a fast when you're done, and what can you expect physically as well as spiritually?

"The impossible becoming inconsequential to us--that is the promised open reward of prayer. Once our souls are humbled through fasting, we are finally positioned too begin the serious and joyous kingdom work God has laid before us to do."

Backed by scientific studies and biblical references, this invaluable resource is for those who need reasons and a method for fasting that changes life - for you and others.