When Lucy meets seminary student Luke Goodson at a church service, she knows she's met the man she is going to marry, and the next May, they exchange vows. Four years later, with their two-year-old son at her side, a very pregnant Lucy proudly watches Luke obtain his seminary degree, enabling him to pursue his calling as a pastor.Shortly after their daughter's birth, Luke accepts a position to pastor a rural community's mission church. The small congregation meets in a quaint clapboard schoolhouse, and they will be able to live in the old schoolmaster's cottage next door. Excited to begin this new chapter of their lives, Lucy and Luke set out for Dawson, Texas . . . and are met by an unwelcome surprise.The cottage is filthy, derelict from disuse. With two small children, no indoor plumbing, and only a rancid cistern from which to get water, Lucy despairs, wondering how she will care for her children's needs or help Luke serve his new congregation. But God has bigger plans than she can see, and even in these circumstances, her little family will not fall from his hand.Based on a true story, Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family invokes a sense of nostalgia alongside the reminder that God provides for his children in all circumstances--and that miracles still happen every day.

Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family

Literature & Fiction

D a Sharron

Genre Fiction

Redemption Press

Lucy Goodson startles awake from a vivid dream of a small town in a fertile valley with a river running through it, adorned by fruit trees lining its banks, all surrounded by desert and snowcapped mountains. It seems so real. When she mentions it to her husband, Luke, a pastor, his response catches her off guard. He knows what the dream means, as he's had the same vision: "We are supposed to go there, Lucy. It's in New Mexico." So begins the based-on-fact story of Luke and Lucy Goodson, who pack up their two young children and their few belongings and follow their dream to Bloomfield, New Mexico, where Luke will build a new church. With limited funds, unexpected challenges, and comical adventures, the family is convinced that miracles are not a thing of the past--they still happen. From their two rambunctious children pulling the swing set down on top of them and not receiving a scratch, to the surprise of a shopping cart full of groceries when all they had left was a jar of jelly, Fruit Trees and Tumbleweeds will astonish you with the ways God provides when one follows His lead. Spanning five years of testing, toil, and trust, this second book in the Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family series will have you cheering, laughing, gasping, and reading well into the night.

Fruit Trees and Tumbleweeds: Book 2 in the Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family series

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Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family

Fruit Trees and Tumbleweeds: Book 2 in the Perils and Promises of a Parson's Family series