Spiritual Fruit is the evidence of faith in the life of every Believer. It is Fruit that is not rooted in ourselves or nourished through our own efforts, but by remaining in the Vine.

Although we are told, through Galatians 5, of the Spiritual Fruit we are to bear in our lives, we often assume that we are to grow the fruit ourselves. We have missed the point of Jesus' words in John 15:1-5: "I am the Vine, you are the branches." As if those words were not clear enough, Jesus decided to reveal the secret to Christian life and service: "apart from me you can do nothing." Yet, in our efforts...

Jonathan had managed to escape from the pirates on the great river of the west that a century later would be called The Columbia. It took all his strength to swim to shore and fall into the brush along the back, unconscious from exposure and exhaustion. Lily, a half British and half Chinook girl, found him there as she was carrying out her plan to escape, or die trying, from her Cayuse captors.

Together the two flee from the Indians and pirates high into the Cascade Mountain Range with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Through difficulty and danger, they encounter God as they have...

From physical and spiritual wrestling matches upon which their very lives depend to Secret dangers and lifelong hopes the adventures of Jonathan and Lily continue. Newly wed, they find their strength of character challenged as they escape the wilderness and establish themselves in the outskirts of civilization. Along with new characters who come into their lives Jonathan and Lily face difficult and impossible circumstances as they learn to deal with the dangers and challenges of life in the Oregon Territory.