August 13, 2018

Ours for a Season

Ours for a Season is the latest from Kim Vogel Sawyer.  You will meet a young Mennonite couple, Anthony and Marty Hirschler, on the opening pages.  Following a miscarriage early in their marriage, this couple learned that they would be unable to ever become pregnant again.  This fact causes Marty to turn her back on both her husband and on God!

In response to Marty's coldness, Anthony spends his days focused on building up his construction company.  However, when he and Marty receive an invitation to move to Kansas to help Marty's childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, convert a ghost town into a resort, Marty feels this might be an opportunity to save their marriage at the same time!

Anthony and Marty encounter two surprises when they arrive in Kansas.  First, they learn that Brooke has recently been diagnosed with cancer.  Next, they learn that part of the resort will contain a casino.  Marty is committed to staying to help Brooke deal with her cancer treatments, while Anthony is willing to continue this job to see how God may be at work in this world, so different from their home!

When Anthony and Marty encounter several teenagers who have been abandoned and forced into sex-trafficking, they feel that God has placed this real need before them.  They may not be able to conceive their own children; however, God has placed some young lives in their path, in need of love!

Hang on, until the final page, to see how God will influence lives and bring beauty from ashes!

I received this book for my unbiased review, in partnership with WaterBrook Multnomah.
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