Walk Worthy Press: Second Sunday

Author Testimony

"The reason I wrote Second Sunday is that I wanted to write about church life from the other side of the pulpit-- with the view-points, likes and dislikes of all of those pew-occupying "Sunday-go-to-meeting" folk in mind.

I also have a real heart for the hard working women in every church and wanted to travel into those incredible inner corridors of black church life where they cook the food for the dinners after service, clean the sanctuary, comfort the grieves and just about run every auxiliary in the place.

I hope with Second Sunday I have also captured the hearts of the seasoned seniors who have seen the power of God moving in their lives as well as those of their fellow church members, the deacons and other laymen who are called to help the pastor facilitate "the life of the church," those would-be/wanna-be members with hearts yearning for a good church home, and those memorable church folk who sometimes conveniently forget that God is still on the Throne and try to run their churches with less than adequate and admirable worldly means.

In Second Sunday, I wanted to write about going to church in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. Or, to be more exact, I just wanted to go back home to the north side of St. Louis and be back at church with "the folk" right in the middle of the 1970s. I hope I have been successful when delving into the hearts, motives, prayer lives, and even antics of the people who made up the membership of the fictitious Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church and that it is a book that causes you to laugh, and cry (or is it laugh until you cry?!).

And finally, I wrote Second Sunday because I simply wanted to tell another story about my favorite subject--folks at church!"

Michele Andrea Bowen

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