Papa Raker's Dream: A Loving History of the Good Shepherd

Cowen, Dick

ISBN 10: 0962080802 / ISBN 13: 9780962080807

Published by Kutztown Publishing Company, Kutztown, PA, 1988

About this Item

x, 318p., cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, very good condition in like dj; signed and inscribed by Cowan on the free front endpaper. Good Shepherd Home was a home for the elderly and disabled founded in 1908 by Rev. John "Papa" Raker in Allentown, PA. It is still in operation today under the name Good Shepherd Rehabilitation.

Seller Inventory # 285991

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Papa Raker's Dream: A Loving History of the Good Shepherd
• Publisher: Kutztown Publishing Company, Kutztown, PA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962080802
• ISBN 13: 9780962080807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gerontology, Elders, senior Citizens, Aged
  • Disabled, handicapped, differently-abled
  • Religion
  • Signed, inscribed, autographed, Autograph, sign...
  • Pennsylvania

About this title

Synopsis

The history of the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in the Lehigh Valley, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was opened in 1908 as the Good Shepherd Home, beginning with one crippled child, and has grown into a great rehabilitation complex. It was co-founded by Papa Raker, the P.T.. Barnum of the Lutheran Church, a zany, learned and feisty champion for what he called The Cause, and that cause was the crippled and orphaned children and destitute elderly in his care. Without apology, he did everything he could to proclaim their needs. It is a book that tells the stories about life at The Good Shepherd Home.