As the child of a minister and domestic and foreign missionary, author Carolyn Reeves Shugart attended seven high schools on both the East and the West coasts. In You Raise Me Up, she offers an honest memoir of her life growing up and maturing in the faith of the Lord.



From her early years as a ministers daughter, to her adult years working for the government and in a crisis pregnancy center, to raising her own family, Shugart shares her experiences and what she learned about living a fulfilling, godly life. She narrates how she married a US Navy enlisted man when she was seventeen, had...