Love Mercy : A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God

by Lisa Samson and Ty Samson

• ISBN13: 9780310284772
• ISBN10: 0310284775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Having lived a life of plenty in suburban America, Lisa Samson and her eighteen-year-old daughter Ty thought they were traveling to Africa to minister to the people and chronicle the AIDS crisis devastating the continent. Their trip, they assumed; would be missional, merciful, giving.

Author Biography

Lisa Samson is the author of over twenty-five books, inducing the Christy award-winning novel Songbird. Her novel Quaker Summer was Christianity Today's novel of 2008. She is coauthor with her husband, Will, of Justice in the Burbs. Ty Samson loves art, literature, playing upright bass, and baking bread. She enjoys working with children and serving at the East Seventh Street Center in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

A Note to Our Readers	p. 9
Prelude: Heading to Swaziland	p. 13
A New Home
Meet Mssrs. Wolff, Parkinson, and White	p. 23
Jubilee	p. 26
Jubilee, Oh Jubilee	p. 32
Denise the Prophetess Shows Up Again	p. 39
Freaky Friday	p. 45
Goosebumps	p. 48
Mountaintop Removal, Four Blonde Children, and a Surly Cook	p. 51
Losing Faith, Losing Limbs	p. 55
Moveable Feast and Dying Men	p. 59
Failure by Disappointment	p. 62
Jose Carlos, a Soda, and a Possible Theophany	p. 67
Truly Pro-Life	p. 70
House of Hospitality and Cluelessness	p. 73
Bring Out Your Dead	p. 77
Journey to Africa
It's Never Easy, Is It?	p. 91
Isaiah 58, Again?	p. 93
Bread of Life	p. 99
People of the Book	p. 108
Rabbits and Catfish	p. 114
Hope amid the Helpless	p. 120
Schoolhouse Rock	p. 126
A Woman and Her Little Dog	p. 134
A Modern-Day Demoniac	p. 141
Lollipops and Growing Up Too Soon	p. 143
Asbestos and No Blacks Allowed	p. 150
A Boy in the Dump	p. 156
Wolves with Pitiful Faces	p. 163
An Easier Journey?	p. 166
Back in Lexington
More Lessons to Learn	p. 171
Matthew's Vision of Jesus	p. 180
Postlude: Coming Home	p. 183
Appendix: Social Justice in Scripture	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 197
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