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Hope Jar by Wanda Brunstetter

Hope Jar is an Amish fiction book. It gives the reader a peek into Amish life. The Lapps daughter Rhonda ran away from her Amish land years ago. She wanted her own life but deeply hurt her parents. When the Lapps receive a letter from Sara Murphy saying she is their granddaughter and wants to meet them . They were very eager to meet her. Unfortunately she said her Mom passed away. The Lapps had not seen their daughter in a long , long time and had never met their granddaughter. After writing many letters it was arranged that the Lapps would get to meet their granddaughter . She was supposed to meet them at the train. As a surprise to them, Michelle Taylor shows up to meet them instead. She had a difficult life . She ran away from an abusive boyfriend and as a result was homeless. She was also raised in the foster system. She does not reveal to them that she is not their granddaughter until she

Imperfect Courage by Live a Life of Purpost by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared by Jessica Honegger

Imperfect Courage is very inspiring. It is the journey Jessica Honegger takes to start a company to help people get a job in the lower economic countries and also help with the cost of adoptions. After taking mission trips as a teenager she saw how great the global needs of poverty in are world were. The company started out in her house when she knew she needed to make a difference in our world. The company is called Noonday Collection . Noonday Collection employees over 4,500 artisans world wide to make jewelry and sell all over the world. It is a very fast growing company. She started out selling her grandmother's jewelry to a pawnshop so she could adopt her son Jack in Rwanda. As she went about the process of adopting she saw how great the need was for children in poorly developed countries to be adopted and how many people in these countries needed work. She gradually developed a net