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/B-cover/without%20spine/9780802423269.jpg "Between a Rock and a Hard Place")
/F-cover/without%20spine/9781600662997.jpg "Fiery Faith")
/A-cover/without%20spine/9780802428707.jpg "Are You Good with God?")
/P-cover/without%20spine/9780802418685.jpg "Practicing the Present")
/K-cover/without%20spine/9780802420367.jpg "Kitchen Table Devotions")
/R-cover/without%20spine/9781575672618.jpg "Red River of Life")
/G-cover/without%20spine/9780802443809.jpg "The Grace of God")
/O-cover/without%20spine/9780802412997.jpg "One Minute After You Die")
/W-cover/without%20spine/9780802488992.jpg "When You've Been Wronged Study Guide")
/C-cover/without%20spine/9780802413550.jpg "The Church in Babylon")
/C-cover/without%20spine/9780802418326.jpg "The Centrality of the Church")
CHRISTMAS CAROL KAUFMAN received her unique name in honor of her Christmas morning birth in 1901 in Elkhart, Indiana. She was raised in a Mennonite home and spent some time as a student at Goshen College. When she was 22, she married Norman Hostetler. However, tragedy struck when two months after their second anniversary, Norman was killed in an electrical accident. She worked in a sewing shop following the wake of her loss, but in 1928, her bishop recommended that she get away for a while and enroll as a Bible student at Hesston College. It was there that she met the man who would be her life partner—Nelson Kaufman. The two were married in 1929. Five years later they were commissioned by the Mennonite General Mission Board to start a mission church in Hannibal, Missouri. It was in their 22-year ministry in Missouri that she found the inspiration to write her many novels. In 1956, they returned to Elkhart where Kaufman wrote her last several books. She died in Elkhart on January 30, 1969.
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JANIE CHEANEY is the author of six novels for young readers and a regular contributor to WORLD Magazine. She also writes and records commentary for The World and Everything in It news podcast. Wordsmith, her writing curriculum for 4th-grade through high school, has been distributed by Common Sense Press since 1992.
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PETER WORRALL teaches Education majors at Moody Bible Institute and is a doctoral student in the Educational Studies program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He and his wife, Kelli, write and teach together. Peter also does pulpit supply, teaches Sunday school, and leads a small group. Since his twenties Peter has taught elementary school, graduated with a Masters in Teaching, and is a grateful father of Daryl and Amelia.
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/I-cover/without%20spine/9780802437891.jpg "I Choose Love")
