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Because of You, I Lost Everything!: True Stories Told from the Eyes of a Missionary Kid
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$19.74
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Publication Date: July 5th, 2022
Publisher:
Independently Published
ISBN:
9798839663510
Pages:
342
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Staff Reviews
GOLD WINNER OF THE 2023 ICBA
Young Adult Christian Non-Fiction Category!
— ICBA JUDGE PANEL
Life is full of uncomfortable situations that may cause a person to question the validity of God or the reasons behind their pain. BECAUSE OF YOU I LOST EVERYTHING is full of true stories about Rev. Jim Darnell Jr. and his missions in Africa with his Father. Through scriptures and personal stories, it becomes evident that only when everything is lost, can we truly find God. Rev. Jim Darnell counts more than 62 churches across Africa, South America, and North America that his parents physically created themselves. Jim's entire life was spent watching God work miracles in the lives of people across the world.
Through The missionaries, Jim learned at a young age to live for God and spread love like Christ. His father taught that a life lived for personal dreams is a selfish, un-Godly life that leads to soul poverty. Also, getting saved quickly in the end, only to die "safely", is not the purpose for salvation--The purpose for salvation, according to Rev. James Darnell is to live a life for God and only God and only then is true salvation present. When salvation is rushed on a dying person, they never experience the joys God provides the souls when salvation is part of life.
Today, people work all day, spend most of their time away from family, come home to their big houses full of endless comfort and convenience and keep wanting more. Many of these people endlessly buy and want more, yet never feel fulfilled. BECAUSE OF YOU I LOST EVERYTHING strips down the human lifestyle to bare minimum. It shows that life is not about the material items surrounding a person, but how they live for others and fill their soul with love from God. Only then will they be fulfilled. Losing everything is really losing nothing and gaining everything through God and his salvation.
Rev. Jim Darnell, Sr., may he rest in peace, carried forth God's values to Rev. Jim Darnell, Jr. and the lessons learned in Jim's entire lifetime are passed on in BECAUSE OF YOU, I LOST EVERYTHING. Worth the read!
STAFF PICK and Recommended by the ICBA Panel of Judges!
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Take a journey to West Africa with Jim as a small missionary child, and live the life he did among the locals in a third-world country facing some extraordinary challenges like:
Not knowing if you are eating a bird, a bat, or maybe even a rat.
Having vicious currents sweep you out to sea, not knowing how you will return to shore.
Meat hanging all day in the tropical heat at the open market, covered in so many flies that the meat can not even be seen, is your dinner.
Then there are the snakes, army ants, hippos, and even crocodile encounters.
No running water, no electricity, one-room huts with dirt floors, and no bathrooms...the worst of the worst ...
Yet seeing God move with such power is astonishing
Understand the making of spiritual giants.
Learn how Jim's parents started 62 churches.
Uncommon Answers to Common Problems - Living with a Vision that's bigger than the troubles.
This book is in the makings of a TV mini-series
- 2024 - GOLD - CHRISTIAN NON FICTION - PenCraft Winter
- 2023 - GOLD - ADULT / NON-FICTION - Christian Book Awards
- 2023 - GOLD - TEEN / NON-FICTION - Christian Book Awards
- 2023 - GOLD - BIOGRAPHY - AWA CBI
- 2023 - GOLD - YOUNG ADULT - Inscriptions Christian Book Awards
- 2023 - FINALIST (SILVER) - NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY - Literary Global Book Award
- 2023 - DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE (SILVER)- CHRISTIAN NONFICTION - NYC Big Book Award
- 2023 - ICBA STAFF PICK
- 2023 - OFFICIAL SELECTION - Christian Book Awards
- 2023 - DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE (SILVER) - NONFICTION - Independent Press Award
- 2023 - WINNER - BIOGRAPHY - Purple Dragonfly Book Award
- 2023 - WINNER - MISSIONS - Illumination Christian Book Awards
- 2023 - FINALIST - BEST TEEN BOOK - Reader's Choice Award
- 2023 - BRONZE - RELIGION-CHRISTIANITY - The Bookfest Awards
- 2022 - WINNER - NEW AUTHOR - Story Monster Royal Dragonfly
- 2023 - #2 AMAZON TOP SELLER
Born in Dallas, Jim spent his childhood in West Africa as a missionary kid. Jim has pastored three churches and serves as a missionary to Ivory Coast. A teacher of 24 years in math, French, and Spanish. His university degrees are a BS in Mathematics, a Master of Divinity, a Master of Secondary Education, and a Master of Educational Technology.
Jim currently teaches in Loving, New Mexico, USA.
Dawn Renee Darnell is a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), Christian Indie Publishing Association (CIPA), Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), and a member and Juror for The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA); she judges the Communicator, Davey, and w3 awards. She is also an artist and a photographer. Her work has been in exhibits in Art Basel, Expo Metro, and in galleries in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain, and New York Times Square. Mrs. Darnell has won 37 international photography awards. She has been honored in Marquis Who's Who, Marquis Top Professional, Millennium Magazine, Artist Closeup Magazine and Blog, and in the Top 100 Magazine. Names 2024 WOMAN OF THE YEAR and 2023 ARTIST OF THE YEAR and 2023 PHOTOGRAPGER OF THE YEAR.
Together, Jim and Dawn Renee have won 55 book awards.
