Millie Adams has been writing poems for over thirty years, most specifically as the Christmas greeting she and her husband of 41 years have been sending. As a minister's spouse presenting UMW programs, speaking for church activities and substituting as a Sunday School teacher, Adams wanted to use poetry to enhance her presentations, but often could not find one to fit the subject. She began writing scripturally based poems relating to each of the seasons of the church year. This book is a collection of many of the poems Adams has written. Each poem is accompanied with a prayer focus which can...

CELEBRATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH POETRY AND PRAYER is filled with a warm, gentle and loving spirit. Millie Adams begins this collection of her poetry by focusing on life's most basic relationship -- one's relationship with God, and then gives expression to and suggestions for meaningful and loving relationships with family members and friends. A brief focus for prayer follows each poem. Readers will find their hearts warmed as they read, and will be moved to prayer again and again.

Millie and James Adams are now retired after serving 22 years as missionaries in South America, plus 13 years as care pastors at Covenant Church in Carrollton, Texas, a church of over 10,000 members. The book you hold in your hand is not just "ink on paper," but rather "blood, sweat and tears" expended for the Kingdom by two unselfish servants. Their journey will come alive as true "living epistles, read by all men." It's not just what is said in the pages of this book, but it is the indelible marks left on the lives of men and women around the world and recorded in heaven. My friends and...