Inspirations From The Mountains

Volume 1 –52 weekly inspirations from Bearwallow Mountain, Virginia. 2006 Sample titles include: Small Fire, Big Fire; Beware The Serpent; Falling Down Laughing

Volume 2 –52 weekly inspirations from Bearwallow Mountain Virginia .2007  Sample titles include: Devil’s Claw; Cockeyed; The Pharisee Tree; God’s Housekeepers

Volume 3 –52 weekly inspirations from Bearwallow Mountain, Virginia. 2008

     Sample titles include: Hiding Among The Stuff; Gentle Hearted Moose; “Time Out!”

Volume 4 –52 weekly inspirations from Bearwallow Mountain, Virginia 2009

     Sample titles include: My Space; The Magic Bullet; Upside Down Day; A Good Soak

     Price: $5 per volume postage included; Soft bound; 52 pages each. Send check or money order to: Literature: Bearwallow Blessings Ministries, 1898 Red Oak Ridge Road, Jewell Ridge, Virginia 24622

Children’s Books

     “SAY WHAT?” KOOL KID’S STORIES FROM APPALACHIA

“Say What?” is a collection of short stories about middle-graders and how they learned important lessons from their experiences.Lessons about:Unselfishness, Overcoming Failure, Faith In Hard Times, Diversity, Bullying, Breaking The Rules ,God’s Divine Protection, The Golden Rule, Praying For Others. Soft bound; 46 pages

     SUMMER OF THE BUCKEYE WHISTLE—A Middle-Grade Mystery Adventure:

          Kristen, almost thirteen, makes up headlines to fit her immediate circumstances and writes letters to God. And she already has her life planned.  She is going to become a journalist for The Washington Post or some other important newspaper. She is already a reporter for THE HOOT, her middle school paper. The next step is to win a contest by writing the best summer story. The prize: Editor of THE HOOT for the coming school year.

     Then her plans fall apart when she has to spend the summer on Bearwallow Mountain with her grandparents, because  “It’s a place where NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.” She arrives on Bearwallow full of prejudices against the mountain people, then becomes entangled in a mystery. Who is the rockthrowing treeclimber on Dismal Creek?  Why do she and her cousin Clay receive a vicious threat at a death wake?  What are the Brown brothers hiding on Dismal Creek? She finds a new friend who can carve beautiful buckeye whistles and imitate the bird songs of the mountains. But where do his true loyalties lie? Will he betray her trust? She and Clay are kidnapped by a gentle mountain man who plays both classical music and bluegrass on his fiddle. And where does her Grampaw fit in the mystery? Is he hiding something too?

     This could be the story that will cinch the contest. But when the puzzle is finally unraveled Kristen finds that God has taken her life in a totally different and delightful direction than what she had planned. Soft bound; 69 pages

  TERROR ON THE TURNPIKE –A Middle Grade Adventure

     At last! Tommy is thrilled at the prospect of his perfect summer vacation. His mom has to take a summer class at the local community college. And he is looking at two full weeks to ride with his dad on his tractor-trailer without his bossy twin sister, Tina. Maybe all summer, if things work out like they have planned. No nagging, no criticizing, no being embarrassed in front of others. What could be better than that?

     Then things change. Tina’s aunt, with whom she was going to spend the summer, becomes ill, so Tina has to go with Tommy and their Dad.

     The next two weeks find the twins trying to coexist in the 8ft X 8ft cab of a Freightliner Classic. Sometimes it is almost unbearable for Tommy, but after encountering and surviving a runaway truck, the rescue of a lost cat at a toll booth on the Chicago beltway, and Tommy meeting the girl of his dreams, they begin to tolerate one another. Then  their Dad gets very ill on the Oklahoma Turner Turnpike and passes out at the wheel. Can Tommy and Tina in their terror forget their differences and work together to get the rig off the road? Soft bound; 38 pages

     POETRY: A POTPOURRI OF POEMS, PRAYERS & PONDERINGS

Sample titles: Just For Today; All The Crying Children; Feed The Lambs; No Time For Roses; Soft bound; 28 pages

All Books are $5 each, postage included. Send check or money order to Bearwallow Blessings Ministries, 1898 Red Oak Ridge Road, Jewell Ridge, Virginia 24622

BROCHURES:

Breaking Free From Food Addiction--Adult

Care and Feeding of a Wandering Lamb—Teachers & Leaders

Couch Potatoes and Computer Game Gurus—Exercise Idea for Teens & Adults

Guaranteed To Put Prayer Back In Our Schools--Family

I Was Hiding Among the Stuff—Adults & Teens

Is Gay OK?—How to be normal again.

Let’s Go Fishing--Evangelism

My Best Friend—Children’s Salvation Tract

Second Chances—For Those who need to make a new start.

W.D.J.S. (What Does Jesus Say?)

What’s Up God? Here’s The Plan Man.--Evangelism

When It Hurts Too Much—Depression and Suicide

Who’s Trashing The Temple?—Children’s Health

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