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Synopsis
Each season of the year has its own beauty. For missionaries, each season of life does too. The seasons invested in missions create beautiful foundations for relationships and cultural understanding among the poor and unreached. In Winter Spring Summer Fall, Ryan Murphy offers his fresh perspective on living and lasting in missions. Each season creates new stories for Murphy, stories about surviving civil war, grieving poverty and disease, and celebrating the transforming love of Christ. But this book is more than just stories of living. He also shares twelve biblical lessons about making it on the mission field. Living is the challenge. Lasting is the goal. God is the reason we go. And seasons winter, spring, summer, and fall are where the lasting fruit of missions blossoms.
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Forget what you thought you knew about missionaries. Winter Spring Summer Fall: Living and Lasting in Missions, the second book from Ryan J. Murphy, creates a fresh vision of what it means to invest a life in foreign missions. Winter Spring Summer Fall shares twelve hard-earned lessons learned during Murphy’s first four years in Africa, as well as stories of surviving civil war, traveling to exotic places, grieving poverty and disease, and celebrating the transforming love of Jesus Christ. Murphy, a Pennsylvania native who lived in San Diego for a decade before moving to Africa, describes how the many seasons and years invested in missions create beautiful foundations for relationships and cultural understanding. His theory goes against the popular method of short-term missions embraced by many churches today. While Murphy shares stories from life “over there,” his intended audience is decidedly American. “I think this book can change the way my generation, the young adults of today, views missionaries. We’re not all backwards freaks living in the dirt somewhere. I’m just a normal guy.” The life described in this book, however, is far from normal. Murphy and his wife sold their home, vehicles, and possessions in 2005 to volunteer their family (including two small sons) to Christian service in Kenya.
About the Author
In 2005, Ryan Murphy, along with wife Heather and infant son Micah, left his comfortable home and successful career in San Diego to teach the children of missionaries in rural Kenya. After graduating with a B.A. in Literature from Point Loma Nazarene University, he planned to pay off his school debt in ten years and then leave for the mission field. Through an incredible turn of events, the debt was paid off in four years, and Heather and he raised all of the financial support needed to volunteer in Kenya. Appointed to work at a boarding school called Rift Valley Academy by Africa Inland Mission, he and his wife teach, mentor, care for, and live with the children of African missionaries nine months of the year. Although he ministers mainly to the students, living among Africans has provided him unique insights into faith and friendship which only cross-cultural missionaries can experience. He taught English at a public school for five years in the U.S. and is devoted to the Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations. Besides writing and teaching, Ryan enjoys playing guitar, wrestling with his two sons, and watching Penn State football.
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- PublisherFather's Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0982532121
- ISBN 13 9780982532126
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Number of pages183
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