title: Bush Pilots & Pioneers
author: Carvo, Vanessa
description: Two Sets Of Footprints In The Sand, is a wonderful and joyful expression of love and compassion.  When an Alaskan bush pilot makes a routine stop to drop off supplies she finds the outside of a family’s home strangely deserted.  She enters the house and finds the entire family unconscious and thinks that carbon monoxide poisoning is the culprit.  She manages to rescue two young boys then sees another person in the bathroom and it’s there she sees a man about her own age.  He is the family’s oldest son and as he’s reviving a little she gets his help to move the two heavier adults out to the safety of their barn.  They all pray together as they wait for the medics to arrive and Jay realizes that she’s falling in love--with both the family’s oldest son, Nigel, and once again, with God.
  
  Christian Lumberjack In The Old West, is an emotional novella about one man’s journey into life, and the old west, when he goes to Oregon to become a lumberjack.  His story is told through a contemporary woman, a librarian in New York who finds most of the man’s journal in the dusty reaches of the library basement.  Through the pages of his story--one of inspiration and hope--he lives on and his words end up being a major factor in her own life, by convincing her to become both a better Christian, and a better human being.