The author of Taiwan Connections: Fond Memories, Faye Pearson, who was reared in Jones County and educated in the Jones County schools, will have a book signing Saturday, Nov. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Baptist Bible and Book House.
She was appointed as a Southern Baptist missionary to Taiwan in 1968 and lived and served in that part of the world for the next 40 years. She served as a campus minister, taught at the Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary, served as a counselor for missionaries in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Faye later became the area director for Southern Baptist work in East Asia supervising the ministry of over 450 missionaries serving in eight countries. She also taught for five years at the Nanjing Theological Seminary in Nanjing, China.
Taiwan Connections: Fond Memories is the story of 15 couples—ordinary men and women from the cities and rural towns of America. These couples met, fell in love, married, and started families—they, too wanted the American Dream. Then they experienced the call of an extraordinary God and followed Him to a far-away, undeveloped country filled with breath-taking beauty, exotic smells, strange sights and a charming, inspiring people—Taiwan, Republic of China.
The experiences chronicled in Taiwan Connections: Fond Memories occurred during war and peace, victory and defeat, disappointment and excitement, as these couples sought to live out their obedient response to God's purpose in a cross-cultural setting. These are stories of fear and calmness, of loss and gain, of failure and success, of hurt and blessings, of faith and doubt, fears and laughter, and watching their children grow up, retiring and returning to a strange land called America to enjoy their grandchildren.
Taiwan Connections: Fond Memories is suitable for family and friends, book clubs and church groups.
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Jones Co. native to sign copies of her book at Baptist Bible and Book House
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MC Singers to perform at First-Trinity in Laurel
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Mississippi Symphony Orchestra to perform at First Baptist Church of Laurel
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