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A lesson in Hope a novel

Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Oilve Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend....

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Main Author: Gulley, Philip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Center Street, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Harmony (Ind. : Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Quakers > Fiction.
Clergy > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Indiana > Fiction.
Christian fiction.
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Summary:Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Oilve Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be used.
Physical Description:260 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781455519842 (hardcover)
1455519847 (hardcover)
Author Notes:PHILIP GULLEY, a Quaker pastor, has become the voice of small-town American life. Along with writing Front Porch Tales , Hometown Tales , and For Everything a Season , he is the author of the Harmony series of novels. Gulley lives in Indiana with his wife, Joan, and their sons.

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