The Weight of Mercy
Subtitle: a novice pastor on the city streets
Publisher: Monarch Books, an imprint of Lion Hudson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780857212290
Description: For 27 years Deb was a journalist in the Deep South. Then she retrained as a Baptist pastor, and accepted a post at a run-down inner-city church where the homeless gathered. It was a shock. Gradually she learned whom she could trust--and whom she couldn't. Sometimes the best person to handle a situation was a drug addict. Sometimes Jesus had the face of a prostitute. All were fiercely welcomed into this bewildering church family. Full of color and incident, Deb's story is a testament to messy grace and the presence of the Spirit in the hard places of the world. -- p. [4] of cover.