Alphabetasaurus

Alphabetasaurus, written and illustrated by Jacqueline Whitfiled, who has written books for her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Now she invites readers of all ages to enjoy her newest book, which introduces the alphabet with fun illustrations and teaches vocabulary words using the dictionary and thesaurus at the back of the book.

Believing Prayer: the Gift of Faith

a Missionary’s Journey to Faith that Moves Mountains

Cute Little Critters

Cute Little Critters was written and illustrated by Jacqueline “Mimi” Whitfield for her grandchildren. She first wrote these poems on a manual typewriter and drew the pictures on typing paper in the 1960s for her three grandchildren. They have since morphed through the years for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchidlren–and now she is happy to share them with others.

5 Days With God: Stories From My Life to Yours

Five Days with God: Stories from My Life to Yours is a 5-day devotional designed to encourage, inspire, motivate and give you hope using stories from my life. There are times when we think God has forgotten about us and we think He has favorites—and it’s not until we read or hear about how God moved in someone else’s life that we begin to realize that if God did it in their life, then He can do it mine.

God doesn’t have favorites; He loves us all. He wants us to trust Him, to have faith in Him and know that He will do what He says, to believe Him and His Word and trust that He knows exactly what’s best for us. Many times, we lose hope when life doesn’t go as planned; we begin to doubt God when things happen that we have no control over; andsometimes we lose faith in God because we didn’t get what we wanted,when we wanted it.

In this devotional, I’m using my life to encourage you, to inspire you, to give you hope that God is in control—He knows what you need, He knows when you need it, and He knows exactly what He’s doing in your life. Your job is to trust God in the midst of everything that is happening and not lose hope when things don’t go as planned. My prayer is that you don’t lose hope, your faith is increased, and you begin to trust God more after reading Five Days with God: Stories from My Life to Yours.

Faith Full Retirement: The Woman’s Guide to Finding Joy in Her Later Years

Someone I Love Has Died AND No One Grieves Like Me

Someone I Love Has Died AND No One Grieves Like Me was written to describe grief as universal, and yet, so very unique to each person. Everybody grieves after the death of someone close, but one individual’s pain and sorrow aren’t better or worse than another’s. In book one of the Someone I Love Has Died series, the author tells real-life stories and gives different scenarios about loss and how children and their caregivers can work through the process of grief.

Someone I Love Has Died:
Get Me off This Emotional Roller-Coaster Called GRIEF!

Someone I Love Has Died; Get Me Off This Emotional Roller Coaster Called GRIEF! describes life as FILLED with crazy twists and turns, scary ups and downs, unpredictable, and sometimes very hard times—like a roller-coaster—especially after someone you love has died. You will be okay, you will survive, and you may just come out a hero!

Someone I Love Has Died:
Grief is a Journey of Discovery

The steps of grief and mourning are similar to embarking on a
difficult journey. The paths you take and your final destination may
look quite different than what you imagined.
You are never alone and there are lots of things to discover along
the way. Through it all, like Andrew, you can keep going and
growing—and you will!

The Promise: A Christmas Coloring Book

Inside this book you will be colored by the art of Truth as you read the promises God made to us and then kept through Christ. A promise kept ignites trust. Trust replaces doubt with hope. Hope brings life as we embrace the One who fulfilled every promise He ever made starting with the advent of Christmas.

Don’t let the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season rob you of joy. Spend a few minutes each day coloring and meditating on the true meaning of Christmas and how it proves the trustworthy character of our heavenly Father who kept every promise he made to us through the advent of Christ.  Let the joy of His nature fill your heart and protect you from getting tangled up in the stress of the season

Wellness: The Awareness of the Whole Individual

Are you tired of that incomplete and unbalanced feeling? Are you seeking a full and comprehensive life for yourself and those that you serve? Wellness may seem like the buzzword of this century, but wholeness and completeness are necessary to satisfying relationships and entrepreneurial success!
The Word of God tells us that we are complex creatures with a body, soul, and spirit, and it emphasizes that Christ came that we might have life, and have it abundantly. To care for ourselves and minister to others without attending to all dimensions of wellness can be neglectful and even dangerous.
Karen Lindwall-Bourg, Grace Edoho-ukwa, and the Associates of RHEMA Counseling bring you Wellness: The Awareness of the Whole Individual , providing you effective tools and assessments useful for your own growth and that of your clients, and encouraging living in abundant wellness within the following BELIEFS dimensions:

• Body
• Emotions
• Livelihood
• Intellect
• Environment
• Family/Friends
• Spiritual

Consider the danger in helping a depressed friend or client by discussing their emotions and spiritual conditions without evaluating their medical, environmental, and relationship needs as well! Wellness: The Awareness of the Whole Individual  helps you bridge that gap holistically and Biblically.

Strength for the Journey: Help for the Whole Family in the Shadow of Grief and Mourning

A Supportive Resource for Facilitators, Educators, Counselors, and Families

The experience of grief and mourning comes in many forms and with multiple challenges—everyone with uncertainties, illnesses, accidents, deaths—all unwelcome changes, accompanied by the loss of our dreams and hopes. When someone we love dies, we are left stunned and unprepared for life without them. We seek solace from the pain and a way to learn to breathe again as a family as we cope with a life without our loved ones, one awful day at a time. Hopefully, in time we reconcile this loss as a part of our lives and may even begin to adopt a mission to help others as we were helped through this journey of reconciling grief and mourning. Too often, families crumble and dissolve under the weights of grief and mourning. By offering those in your family opportunities to grieve their losses and acknowledge the reality and pain that accompanies those griefs, you give them tools and strategies to cope with the ongoing struggles that are a natural part of everyone’s life. Please join us as we attempt to provide tools—explanations, tasks of mourning, permission to re-connect and remember your loved one, stories, developmental helps, parenting guides, family strengths, and healing strategies, journaling, memorial suggestions, and book recommendations—that will pull your family together and pool your resources on this journey of hope and reconciliation.

The Art of Brave Living

Most of us don’t consider our lives or ourselves brave. We go through the day and we live our lives and don’t consider anything about that particularly special. We are who we are.

But every time we take a little detour in the path we walk in order to be true to ourselves, we’re being brave. Every time we step out of our comfort zone, we’re being brave. Every time we stare rejection in the face and still move forward, brave is giving us the strength. Every time we push through a crisis, provide a shoulder to lean on, or reach out a helping hand, we show the world what brave looks like.

Brave is a mother who lives with the knowledge that each moment, death stalks her children. Brave is walking beside a loved one as they’re wheeled into surgery, knowing that you may never see them or talk to them again. Brave is holding the hand of a child with cancer and presenting a picture of strength when all you want to do is crumple before God and cry.

Brave is painted in the face of a wife fleeing her abuser, in the journeys to a foreign land, in the decision to pursue a career when everyone is telling you it can’t be done, in walking obedient to God in providing ministry to others who are in need or hurting. Brave is standing on trembling knees, with fear waiting to devour you, and refusing to cower any longer.

The Art of Brave Living takes us through the stories of remarkable women who found their brave. These stories aren’t about one journey, but a lifetime of choices and decisions that empower them with strength and purpose. They help us see that each time we meet life’s challenges head on with dignity and grace, even if we’re in tears, we mastering the art of brave living. Their stories inspire us to recognize and embrace the brave that stands before us in every decision we make.

Rock Bottom Is A Beautiful Place: Testimonies of Triumph

Diane Cunningham found herself at the bottom of a hopeless pit, familiar with the rocks and boulders that surrounded her—addiction, insecurities, fears, and loss. It was when she looked up from the bottom that she found the God who heals, saves and loves. As she began telling about her rock bottom experience, she encountered more and more women who had also suffered rock bottom experiences. The concept of Rock Bottom Is A Beautiful Place was born. These are the stories of twenty-eight women from all walks of life. Their stories illustrate the humanity that is common to us all. They share stories of abandonment, loss, addiction, incest, rape and so much more. These were not easy stories to write, nor are they easy stories to read. However, it is the prayer of all involved in this book that you will be inspired by the real women who have shared their true-life stories. We want to show that there is victory at Rock Bottom, and that you will be drawn closer to the God who loves passionately, saves recklessly and heals unconditionally. We each have found that God’s light shines brightest when it shines through the darkest nights of our souls. Come join us on the journey. We are waiting to embrace you!

Rock Bottom Is A Beautiful Place 2: Living Your Calling

In this second book of the Rock Bottom series, we meet eleven women who have wandered the deserts of their lives, desperately seeking their purpose and calling from God. These are their testimonies of their very real pains and goals, their tragedies, and turning points. Rock Bottom looks different for each of us. The miracles experienced coming out of the pit are in each day, each story and each woman. The trip from Rock Bottom is not about a final destination, but a journey and a process. The trip is never over. There is never a moment of “arrival.” With each story told, another woman feels able to climb out of her Rock Bottom pit. With each testimony shared, another soul finds the grace, forgiveness, and fulfillment that only God can give. These women are sharing their stories of loss, sorrow, illness and wondering, empowers other women to embark on their journey to fulfill their passions. Come, join us as we walk the path of Rock Bottom.

Rock Bottom Is a Beautiful Place 3: Living With a Grateful Heart

In this third book of the Rock Bottom series, we meet twenty-four women who have learned through the desert places of their lives that God is not only there throughout their deepest pain, but able to turn their ashes into beauty.

Learning to live with a grateful heart through Rock Bottom isn’t easy. Sometimes we can see that we have sidestepped even larger dangers through our Rock Bottom experience. Other times, we see where our story is a blessing to others, and we can be grateful that even in spite of our failings, God can use us to draw others to Himself.

But sometimes we find no reason for our Rock Bottom pain, and still, we say, “yet will I praise Him.”

Walk with these brave women as they share their stories, their struggles, and their grateful hearts. Through their strength and their faith, they show us that we can trust in God’s ultimate goodness and concern for our lives.

10 Tips on How Not to Talk to Your Children about Sex

Audrey Werner, a former sex educator and then STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) Clinic nurse, was challenged to look into the origins of sex education; including a popular Christian sex education program called “The Learning about Sex” series.  What she found was a man by the name of Alfred Kinsey, leaders of Planned Parenthood—the world’s leading abortion provider—and financial backing of those in the pornography industry.  Through twenty years of research and interviews, Audrey has not only compiled the facts about the origins of sex education, but she gives parents the tools to raise pure children in this sexualized culture. Audrey provides a powerful tool to help equip any parent, faith leader, or individual who is concerned with reducing teen pregnancy and venereal disease rates, as well as eliminating sexual exploitation and abuse of children. With a foreword by Anne-Marie Ezzo, author and co-founder of Growing Families International.

A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship

Raised in upstate New York, Mike earned a BS and MS in secondary science at SUNY-Oneonta and Cornell and then a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology at Iowa State University.  His varied career included an assistant professorship at the University of Maine-Orono’s School of Forest Resources, Field Director for The Wildlife Society, Audubon’s Director of Federal Relations, program development officer for the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences)—where he formed a committee to address renewable natural resources issues—and tenure with Tenneco, Inc., a Fortune 50 Company.  While there, he graduated from the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School’s “The Executive Program.”  Mike was promoted to Director of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) for Tenneco Oil E&P.  From there, he became VP of EH&S for Transco Energy Co. Under his leadership, the companies received the National Wildlife Federation’s “Conservation Achievement Award,”  Ducks Unlimited’s “Silver Teal Award,” and The Conservation Fund’s “Calder Award.” He then served in Governor Pataki’s cabinet as Commissioner (CEO) of New York’s Dept. of Environmental Conservation.  After leaving the DEC, he helped found and served as president of the Conservation Alliance of New York and recently retired as President and CEO of the Ruffed Grouse Society—an international wildlife conservation organization promoting sound forest management for the benefit of both hunted and non-hunted wildlife. His awards/recognition include a letter from President Carter thanking him for his help in passing the Fish & Wildlife Conservation Act of 1980 (later known as CARA); induction into the “Hall of Fame” by the offshore energy industry for his work at Tenneco on wetlands mitigation banking and “Rigs to Reefs” (converting retired offshore energy production platforms into functioning artificial reefs); and into the NY State Outdoorsman’s Hall of Fame.