num_pages: 230
description: Wildly popular blogger Jamie the Very Worst Missionary delivers a searing offbeat often hilarious memoir of spiritual disintegration and re-formation.As a quirky Jewish kid and promiscuous punkass teen Jamie Wright never imagines becoming a Christian let alone a Christian missionary. She is barely an adult when the trials of motherhood and marriage put her on an unexpected collision course with Jesus. After finding her faith at a suburban megachurch Jamie trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There along with her family she earnestly hopes to serve God and change lives. But faced with a yawning culture gap and persistent shortcomings in herself and her fellow workers she soon loses confidence in the missionary enterprise and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Nearly paralyzed by depression yet still wanting to make a difference she decides to tell the whole disenchanted truth: Missionaries suck and our work makes no sense at all! From her sofa in Central America she launches a renegade blog Jamie the Very Worst Missionary and against all odds wins a large and passionate following. Which leads her to see that maybe a bad missionary--awkward doubtful and vocalis exactly what the world and the throngs of American do-gooders need.
language: English
title: The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever
publisher: Convergent Books