Hope series (Philip Gulley)
Author
Author
Language
English
Description
Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner agrees to oversee a wedding in place of the ill Unitarian minister, unaware until the couple stands before him that they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions that follows, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Then Sam receives a call from Hope, Indiana: it seems Hope Friends Meeting is in desperate need of a pastor.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place of hanging, mating, and living, which poses a big problem...
