| Our Twelve Days Before Christmas Contributor(s): White, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550226142 ISBN-13: 9781550226140 Publisher: ECW Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: This hilarious and moving account of one family's frantic countdown to Christmas Eve follows the trials of a Christian minister as he tries to put up a giant Christmas tree, rearranges his schedule to attend his children's concerts, struggles against mobs at the mall, and participates in the church choir's first attempt at Handel's "Messiah," Familiar stories of family events during the holidays accompany quirky, entertaining accounts of the particular challenges a minister encounters, such as his desperate nationwide search for goats for the church's Christmas pageant. The joy and frustration of the Christmas season are captured in this story of a family's struggle to find the genuine meaning of the holiday. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Christian Ministry - Pastoral Resources - Religion | Holidays - Christmas & Advent |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.48" W x 8.24" (0.72 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Holiday - Christmas - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A hilarious and moving account of one family's frantic countdown to Christmas Eve. Follow in the author's footsteps as he wrestles with giant Christmas trees, scrambles to get to his children's concerts, is swallowed up by the mobs in the mall, sings his choirs first tentative attempt at Handel's Messiah and enters into a desperate nationwide search for goats for his church's Christmas pageant. Christmas is a time of joy and memories, memories that are both sweet and tinged with sadness. In this book we share both the happiness and the grief that can accompany this season. Our Twelve Days of Christmas is a book that will resonate with every family, as it shares a story that is both unique and universal, a story of family and the genuine meaning of this holiday. |