The Girl Who Saw Heaven A Fateful Tornado and a Journey of Faith

by Reburn, Lisa; Tresniowski, Alex

• ISBN13: 9781982189525
• ISBN10: 1982189525
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-05-09
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

A remarkable true story of one child’s journey into the afterlife after surviving a super tornado.

When Ari Hallmark was in kindergarten, her family was caught in a powerful tornado in their hometown of Arab, Alabama. On April 27, 2011, Ari and her parents, Shane and Jennifer Hallmark, were putting the finishing touches on their new home, which Shane had built from scratch. Shane’s last-second decision to drive to his parent’s house put the Hallmarks directly in the path of a devastating EF4 tornado.

Moments after the Hallmarks arrived at the home, the mile-wide tornado ripped the house off its foundation and flung it in the air. When Ari regained consciousness, she began sharing the extraordinary story of what happened to her during the tornado: she met her guardian angel and followed her family to heaven. The full story of what Ari went through—the six months of reoccurring dreams that foretold the tragedy, and the unexpected challenges she faced from the legal system after the storm—delivers a powerful message to the world: you will see your late loved ones again.

Ari Hallmark is now a high school senior determined to share her hopeful message with the world. The Girl Who Saw Heaven is a uniquely poignant addition to near-death experience and heavenly encounter classics. Ari’s story will leave you with a different perspective of death and more hopeful of what lies beyond.

Author Biography

Dr. Lisa Reburn has a PhD in Education and a master’s degree in Visual Impairments, as well as master-level endorsements in Education Administration, Early Childhood Special Education, and Orientation and Mobility (a specialty area in the field of blindness). Lisa retired from her thirty-four-year career in education in late 2017. After her first child, Michelle, died at birth in 1992 from a common and preventable but relatively unknown infection called Group B Strep (GBS), Lisa advocated locally, then nationally, for a protocol change to include routine screening for all pregnant women. This advocacy took four years to finally pay off with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Protocol change following a segment on the Today show produced with Lisa. By the time the ACOG protocol change took place, Lisa had two healthy sons, Tyler and Michael.

Alex Tresniowski is a writer who lives and works in New York. He was a writer for both Time and People magazines, handling mostly human-interest stories. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books. For more about this story and the author, please visit AlexTres.com.