num_pages: 248
description: At the age of fourteen, John Robert McFarland traded his life for his sisters. Save her from death, he prayed to God, and Ill . . . be a minister. It wasnt what he wanted to do, but it was the only bargain the teenager could think of that would get Gods attention. For forty years McFarland worked to see if his strange calling was really to the high calling, the ministry. That calling has taken him to Alabama to march with Martin Luther King Jr., to the chaos of university campuses in the 1960s, to the families of murder victims and abused children, through a cancer diagnosis, and to the grave of ambition. For anyone who ever felt called, for anyone whos ever been a minister or contemplated it, for anyone whos ever experienced the care of those who answer the strange call, for anyone whos ever wondered who ministers are and why they do what they do, this book tells the story of every minster by telling the stories of one ministry
language: English
title: The Strange Calling
titlecomplete: The Strange Calling
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub