The Ministry of Ordinary Places Spiral-Bound | 2018-10-09

Shannan Martin

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Popular blogger Shannan Martin offers Christians who are longing for a more meaningful life a simple starting point: learn what it is to love and be loved right where God has placed you.

Find your life and true calling by losing yourself in the ordinary rhythms of life with the people God has placed around you.

Popular blogger, Shannan Martin offers Christians who are longing for a more meaningful life a simple starting point: learn what it is to love and be loved right where God has placed you.

What does it look like to live lives of meaning?
And how do we do it between loads of laundry and reimagining leftovers?
Where do we even begin?

For Christ-followers living in an increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to live a life of intention and meaning.

But in The Ministry of Ordinary Places, speaker and writer Shannan Martin offers a surprisingly simple answer: it's about being with people, the ones right next door. As she walks you through her own story she challenges you to see your community through a wider lens of love, following in the footsteps of a Savior who came as an everyday man and spent his life circled up with regular folks just like us. Along the way, she shares discoveries about the vital importance of showing up and committing for the long haul, despite the inevitable encounters with brokenness and uncertainty.

With transparency, humor, heart-tugging storytelling, and more than a little personal confession, Martin shows us that no matter where we live or how much we have, as we learn what it is to be with people as Jesus was, we'll find our very lives. The details will look quiet and ordinary, and the call will both exhaust and exhilarate us. But it will be the most worth-it adventure we will ever take and The Ministry of Ordinary Places will help guide you along the path.

Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0718077482
Item Weight: 0.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
''I was terrified of being ordinary', and with that one sentence Shannan Martin sums up every single one of us. Certainly me. And then she deconstructs the cliche of orindary and puts it back together with pictures and stories and sidewalks full of people who will make you want to cry or singy or despair or dance or rail or just quietly whisper, amen. This book is a new pair of eyes. Go ahead, open them!'- Lisa-Jo Baker, bestselling author of Never Unfriended and Surprised by Motherhood

Shannan Martin, known for her popular blog Shannan Martin Writes, is a speaker and writer who found her voice in the country and her story in the city. She and her jail-chaplain husband, Cory, have four funny children who came to them across oceans and rivers. They enjoy neighborhood life in Goshen, Indiana, a place they fall more in love with every year.