As a young adult I was part of Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru), and learned to write a three-minute testimony as a way of sharing my faith with other people. What was my life like before coming to Christ? How and why did I come to make a Christian commitment? What changed afterward? Although I didn’t have a … Continue reading From Sharing to Testimony
In third grade, I wrote about wanting to be a writer some day, and illustrated my two paragraphs with a hand-drawn picture of my parents' old manual typewriter. Today my husband says to me, "You're living your dream." That's true in many ways, although there's a lot about writing today that's different from what I … Continue reading What Writing Means for Me Today
I love the cover of my newest book and am so excited to share it with you! Finally, after MONTHS of waiting: It's here! It's here! It looks more like a magazine cover than a book, doesn't it? And as a book, it's short--under 49 pages, so it doesn't meet the UNESCO definition of a book. … Continue reading Sharing Faith Stories for Every Day
Everyone loves a story! What's more, everyone has a story, and for people of faith, everyone has a faith story. That's the background for my next writing project--and yes, I know Christ is For Us hasn't even been released yet, so I might have waited before starting something new. But when MennoMedia asked me to write Sharing … Continue reading Sharing Faith Stories (an Upside Down Living Bible Study)
April Yamasaki 