Barbara Edema-For Richer or for Poorer
Synopsis:
What’s Pastor Maggie up to now?
Life at Loving the Lord Community Church in Cherish, Michigan, isn’t always easy. Learning how to adjust to a new marriage while caring for her many parishioners keeps Pastor Maggie on her toes. And things get more complicated as she prepares a group of church folks for the coming holidays—AND a two-week mission trip to Ghana, Africa.
While in Ghana, the expectations of good-hearted people clash with the real needs of the villagers. Maggie’s frustration boils over and her plans begin to crumble. All her beliefs about rich and poor, success and failure, poverty and wealth, opened hearts and closed minds get turned upside down. The lessons learned in Bawjiase are life changing for all.
As her spiritual beliefs are threatened, Maggie knows her ministry will be transformed once she returns from her time in Ghana. But will she be the richer or the poorer for it?
Book Review:
Splendid, charming and compelling!
This is the third book in the Pastor Maggie series. Author Barbara Edema has done it again. After reading and thoroughly enjoying book two, To Have and To Hold, I was anxiously awaiting the next installment in the series. And For Richer or For Poorer did not disappoint. It is excellent.
I was brought right back into the scene at Loving the Lord Community Church with all the interesting parishioners and characters.
As a wonderful twist, Pastor Maggie takes a group of her parishioners to Ghana, Africa for a mission trip. The chapters are beautifully interspersed, taking the reader back and forth from Cherish to Ghana.
All the characters are extremely well written and developed. Some of them have grown and evolved nicely from the previous books.
Once again I was drawn in by the personalities with their particular quirks, issues, strengths and weaknesses. I’ve grown to love some of these characters. They are fully developed, thought out and formed. Barbara Edema has a special way of developing likable interesting characters that the reader will fall in love with. They are familiar and unpredictable. Their interactions with each other are realistic and endearing. They are woven into the storyline in a very simplistic smart manner.
I loved the plot. While it is full of drama, it is not lacking in warmth and fun. It is delightful and mysterious at the same time. It is filled with humor, anguish, and romance. The author has a way with words that is unlike many other authors. She keeps the reader wanting more. She writes with a lot of emotion that nourishes the soul, she skillfully develops the storyline, while meticulously interweaving the characters within.
Maggie has an awakening of the soul, as she ponders the differences between true wealth and poverty, generosity and judgment, the open-hearted and the close-minded. Her struggles embolden her ministry.
I couldn’t put For Richer or For Poorer down. It is filled with many important life issues while keeping a fantastic work of fiction. The warmth of the characters and their interactions will make the reader smile and ponder many things. I turned the pages quickly wondering and anticipating what would happen next. The trials and triumphs of the people in Pastor Maggie’s congregation is inspiring. This is a very fun story as well. It shows what the power of love can do. It is creative and extraordinarily imaginative. I think that readers will be very satisfied, inspired and happy with this third installment of the “Pastor Maggie” series.
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