Review: SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST FOCUS--NOT AMISH!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
TALKING TO JESUS AT DAWN: AMISH SUNRISE BLESSINGS VOLUME THREE by Sicily Yoder is a confusingly presented mixed bag of stuff. There is not one reference to Amish in the entire book and very little about talking to Jesus at dawn.Instead, there are short stories which have the ring of Seventh Day Adventists. Yoder writes much of this book in the first person narrative. She refers to her sister as being vegetarian when she was a practicing Christian. (The only Christian denomination that requires its members to be vegetarian is Seventh Day Adventists.) Yoder also states that she worked for 3ABN as a Prayer Warrior (which is solely a Seventh Day Adventist network.) In addition, in the first story, Yoder refers to "Sabbath School" repeatedly--which again is another term that is used by Seventh Day Adventists who keep to the Saturday tradition laid out in the book of Genesis and is used in lieu of the term Sunday School by mainstream Christianity.In between the stories, there is a short personal prayer that would only rarely apply to the reader's life in unusual circumstances and an occasional recipe.As an avid reader and fan of the Amish fiction genre, in particular, I was disappointed beyond belief in this book. If I wanted to read a book on Seventh Day Adventists, I'd buy one. The misrepresentation in content is questionable at best and highly suspect at worse.