Summary Of The Book 'Changing Stories'

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Hi,

Thank you for allowing me to meet with you at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference and talk about my book Changing Stories!

After giving you my One Page, I am taking the next step and sending you the book proposal and first three chapters of the book.

Please consider for publication Changing Stories, a 45,000-word non-fiction book intended to help adult Evangelical Christians in America, from 20 to 50 years old with basic biblical knowledge. An audience who feel called to share God’s love with a world marked with suffering, but don’t know how to respond biblically to the current refugee crisis.

The current migration crisis is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our days. In the book, Changing Stories, I address the crisis

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