New Face-to-Face Release #1

Here is Janet Thompson's new Face-to-Face release....


Face-to-Face with Sarah, Rachel and Hannah: Pleading with God

At some time in life we all beg God to perform in a way we think is best. Even a woman of strong faith can experience a crisis of faith when life doesn’t turn out as she expects and she knows God could intervene on her behalf.

Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah thought God should provide a child and pleaded with Him to honor their hearts’ desire. In different ways, each woman took matters into her own hands when God’s timing didn’t match her timetable.

Face-to-Face with Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah explores various issues in women’s lives that lead to pleading with God and ways they react when He doesn’t immediately respond or they don’t like His answer, as well as guiding women to learn to rest in God’s sovereignty and wait on His timing.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596693215/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=howeorig-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1596693215

http://www.christianbook.com/face-with-sarah-rachel-hannah-pleading/janet-thompson/9781596693210/pd/693210?item_code=WW&netp_id=957128&event=ESRCG&view=details

New Face-To-Face Release #2

Dear friend and fellow New Hope author Janet Thompson has just released two more wonderful Face-to-Face studies for women, this one about grandmother and mother, Lois and Eunice. You don't want to miss either one!


Face-to-Face with Lois and Eunice: Nurturing Faith in Your Family

Lois and Eunice followed the numerous Scriptures instructing one generation to pass on their faith to the next generation, and young Timothy grew up to be a second-generation leader of the early church.

Often mentoring focuses on reaching out to others, but as parents and grandparents the first line of mentoring should be within your own family, a concept repeated throughout the Bible. The Bible has many devastating examples of parents who were poor role models or didn’t rear their children to know God, as well good and faithful parents whose children wandered away from God.

Face-to-Face with Lois and Eunice focuses on how women today can be grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and mentors whose faith takes root in the next generation.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596693223/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tonymerida-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1596693223

http://www.christianbook.com/lois-eunice-nurturing-faith-your-family/janet-thompson/9781596693227/pd/693227?product_redirect=1&Ntt=693227&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, and New Hope Publishers is onboard!

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.)—January 9, 2011— January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day and New Hope Publishers offers many valuable resources that shed light and give actionable steps to help end modern slavery.

As seen on Fox news, Not in My Town: Exposing and Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery (978-1-59669-301-2, $19.99) answers questions and promotes discussion about the slavery system that crisscrosses Atlanta, Orlando, Las Vegas, New York, California, Texas, North Carolina, Haiti, Amsterdam, India, Cambodia, and beyond. The authors’ gripping journey shocks but also motivates and provides resources to equip new generations of abolitionists from all corners of society and diverse worldviews who share the common call to stop injustice. DVD included with book.

New Hope Publishers also offers the “Freedom” fiction series by award-winning author Kathi Macias. Deliver Me From Evil (978-1-59669-306-7, $14.99) is the first release in the series and Special Delivery (978-1-59669-307-4, $14.99) will be available this March.

The New Hope Publishers Web site, www.newhopedigital.com, offers several podcasts, articles, columns, and videos on the topic as well.

About New Hope Publishers

Representing more than 80 authors and more than 130 individual works, the mission of New Hope^® Publishers is to provide books that challenge readers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God. New Hope Publishers is the general trade publishing imprint for WMU^®, a missions auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. New Hope Publishers is a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

For more information about New Hope Publishers, visit www.newhopedigital.com.

A Christmas Journey Home

New Hope Publishers Releases Christmas Fiction Novel by Kathi Macias

(Birmingham, Ala.)—September 5, 2011—Award-winning author Kathi Macias releases a Christmas novel, A Christmas Journey Home: Miracle in the Manger (978-1-59669-328-9, N124135, $12.99).

A Christmas Journey Home is the story of two widows—one driven by fear and a promise, the other by bitterness and revenge—who must make their journeys along different pathways, but with the same destination: a barn full of animals that stands waiting for them on Christmas Eve. Forced to face their personal demons, Isabella and Miriam soon discover a common yearning that will bind them together in a most miraculous way.

“Kathi Macias has earned a reputation for crafting stories that feature believable characters who face true-to-life situations, and she does it again in A Christmas Journey Home,” says Loree Lough, award-winning author of 80 books, including From Ashes to Honor. Readers will quickly identify with Isabella and Miriam—very different women, forever changed by heartache and loss—and find themselves forever changed by Macias’s powerful, spirit-charged story. Definitely a ‘keeper!’”

Red Ink, one of Kathi’s current fiction books, recently won Novel of the Year by the Golden Scroll Book Awards. Red Ink has been named one of three finalists for the Long Contemporary Carol Award by the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

About the Author

Award-winning author Kathi Macias (www.kathimacias.com) has written more than 30 books, including the award-winning devotional A Moment a Day and the popular “Matthews” mystery novels. Kathi has won many awards, including the Angel Award from Excellence in Media, fiction awards from the San Diego Christian Writers Guild, and the grand prize in an international writing contest. With women’s ministry as her primary interest, Kathi is a popular speaker for women’s retreats, conferences, and churches. A mother and grandmother, Kathi and her husband, Al, call California home.

About New Hope Publishers

Representing more than 80 authors and more than 130 individual works, the mission of New Hope^® Publishers is to provide books that challenge readers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God. New Hope Publishers is the general trade publishing imprint for WMU^®, a missions auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. New Hope Publishers is a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

Cover for the first book in my next series

Here it is, the cover for book one in the new Freedom Series! Deliver Me From Evil releases this Fall. Leave a comment about what you think, along with clear contact info, and win a free copy when it releases!

New Hope Launching New Web Venture

Innovative Web Venture to Launch This Spring from New Hope Publishers

(Birmingham, Ala.)—March 9, 2011—As book publishing rapidly enters an exciting new era of connectivity, New Hope Publishers is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of NewHopeDigital.com this April. NewHopeDigital.com is an innovative Web venture, providing readers and retailers with fresh content from top authors in multiple digital formats.

NewHopeDigital.com will feature regularly updated magazine-style content—articles, columns, feature stories, podcasts, videos—from New Hope authors and other contributors. In addition to featuring the latest book releases, each month the site will have a specific theme, such as orphan care, human exploitation, the persecuted church, and missional living.

“New Hope authors are making an impact for Christ, and through New Hope Digital, readers and retailers will be able to read, listen, watch, and interact with them regarding relevant, contemporary issues all in one place,” says publisher Andrea Mullins. “We are praying that our unique approach will be transformational in the lives of believers and will be a tool that retailers can use to connect their customers to the books that will be most helpful in their spiritual journeys.”

The New Hope fold of authors has been very receptive to the concept. “NewHopeDigital.com will provide me an opportunity to go deeper and connect with readers and retailers in an exciting new venue,” says top-selling New Hope author Jennifer Kennedy Dean, best known for her Live a Praying Life resources. “Since most of us live a cyberlife, NewHopeDigital.com fits right into the flow of information that I value and look forward to.”

New Hope author Mark Russell (The Missional Entrepreneur) says, “The church needs a place to explore complex human issues, discover the comprehensive vision of God’s mission, and how these two realities can come together. I’m excited about New Hope Digital because it gives us a conversation space to learn from one another in our God-given mandate to love him and our global neighbor.”

To find out more and to sign up for a free monthly e-newsletter and receive a free download of iFaith by Daniel Darling on the Nook platform, please visit the promotional site at NewHopeDigital.com today.

About New Hope Publishers

Representing more than 50 authors and more than 100 individual works, the mission of New Hope Publishers is to provide books that challenge readers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God. New Hope Publishers is the general trade publishing imprint for WMU, a missions auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. New Hope Publishers is a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

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Do You Have Unshakeable Faith?

Unshakeable Faith, an 8-session Bible study for women by Kathy Howard, has just been released by New Hope Publishers. This study helps readers apply 8 key “faith traits” found in the life of Peter so they will be prepared to weather the harshest storms of life. Today we get to talk to Kathy about her new Bible study!

Kathy, what prompted you to write on this particular topic?

Over the last few years, many Christian women I love and admire have endured difficult circumstances such as life-threatening illness, divorce, death of a child, and financial hardship. The quality of their faith significantly affected how they endured these trials and how God worked in them for His glory. God strengthened and guided them through their close relationship with Jesus.

Their experiences made me wonder how I would do in the same circumstances. Like most women, I manage to juggle the everyday things of life – work, family, ministry, and home life – without too much difficulty. But sometimes, even in just a small crisis, my self-sufficiency is shaken. Would I stand firm in really hard times or would these trials knock me flat? I began to ask God to show me how my faith could be prepared.

So why Peter? Why is he a good example for us to study?

Peter was just an ordinary man, a fisherman. He worked hard. He had a family and friends. Peter was passionate and a natural leader, but he was also headstrong and impetuous. Peter had sworn to follow Jesus unconditionally, no matter the circumstances. Yet on the night Jesus was betrayed, his faith wavered and he denied His Lord. But then several decades later Peter willingly faced martyrdom rather than deny Him again. This study is about what made the difference in Peter’s faith. Unshakeable Faith looks closely at Peter’s life and teachings to discover some of the key characteristics God built into his faith that helped him stand firm in the face of death. That’s the kind of faith I want to have.

What’s unique about this study?

I love to study God’s Word. Learning about God, His ways, and what He desires for us is wonderful. But if we don’t apply what He teaches us, let it shape our lives, then we fall short of the full purpose of study. Unshakeable Faith not only leads readers into learning God’s Word, but it also purposefully helps readers apply it. In addition to each week’s application section, there is a “Faith Shaker” story that helps us see how that faith trait works in real life. These stories are about real women who have faced a life trial with which many readers will relate. Readers get to see how their faith keeps them standing firm. A strong faith in Jesus Christ does work in real life!

Where can readers get a copy of Unshakeable Faith?

The study is available at most online bookstores and many Christian bookstores. If your local bookstore does not carry it more than likely they can order it for you. Here are a few links to online stores.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Unshakeable-Faith-Traits-RockSolid-Studies/dp/1596692979/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295970163&sr=1-4

New Hope/WMU Bookstore: http://www.wmustore.com/product.asp?sku=N114134

Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Unshakeable-Faith/Kathy-Howard/e/9781596692978/?itm=1&USRI=unshakeable+faith+by+kathy+howard

Christian Book Distributors: http://www.christianbook.com/unshakeable-faith-traits-rock-solid-living/kathy-howard/9781596692978/pd/692978?item_code=WW&netp_id=834962&event=ESRCN&view=details

Starting the New Year with Prayer!

Okay, we're midway through the first day of 2011. Anyone break their resolution yet? Frustrating, isn't it?

Well, here's my resolution: to love Jesus more and worry about everything else less. And the only way to do that is to spend more time in communion with God. Jennifer Kennedy Dean's Live a Praying Life is a great source for doing just that. Here's a little something to whet your appetite for this excellent book.

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The noun alter is usually understood to be a place of worshipful offering. Something of value is offered up and released on the altar. The offerer relinquishes ownership and yields control to Another-- a Power beyond.

Author Jennifer Kennedy Dean, in her book Life Unhindered!, turns the noun altar into a verb. She challenges us to altar our fear, our failure, our possessiveness, our need to control... All those things that hold us captive and keep us from running the race at full throttle.

Live in an altar’d state: surrendered, yielded... Free. Not offering sacrifice to appease a god who is vengeful; or to placate a god who is witholding; or to win the approval of a god who is angry. Live an altar’d life to cooperate with the God who is committed to seeing you free of the toxic and hindering emotions that work against your freedom. Let the altar do its work in you, transforming fear to faith , worry to worship. Each time that old thought pattern starts asserting itself in your thoughts, overlay it with the new reality: I’m altar’d

On the altar, flesh is surrendered to crucifixion. Crucifixion is the prelude to resurrection. Altar’d living frees us to live in the power of His resurrection.

Jennifer is known for her imaginative reframing of eternal truth, and again she gives us a powerful revision of an ancient symbol. She first introduced us to the difference between a prayer life and a praying life, and now leads us to the power of altar’d living.

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Interested? Find out more and order at http://www.newhopepublishers.com/index.php/2010/09/jennifer-kennedy-dean-releases-new-and-revised-live-a-praying-life/

Win a Kindle...or Give One as a Gift!

Wish you had a Kindle? Maybe you already have one and would like to give one to someone else...? Well, here's your chance. Help me get the word out about book three of the Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers--RED INK--and you just might win one! I need reviews of Red Ink on Amazon and CBD (and anywhere else you'd like to post it, including your own blog if you have one), so post one and you've taken the first step toward being entered to win. Then, if you aren't already a follower of this blog, click on "follow" so you will be. Finally, email me at ezyrtr@ca.rr.com to let me know you've entered and how to reach you if you're the winner. This contest will continue throughout the month of October, with a drawing for the winner in early November (in plenty of time for Christmas!), so get busy with the most important step in becoming a winner: get a copy of RED INK and read it! I would really appreciate it, gang!!!

Win a Kindle!

Wish you had a Kindle? Maybe you already have one and would like to give one to someone else...? Well, here's your chance. Help me get the word out about book three of the Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers--RED INK--and you just might win one! I need reviews of Red Ink on Amazon and CBD (and anywhere else you'd like to post it, including your own blog if you have one), so post one and you've taken the first step toward being entered to win. Then, if you aren't already a follower of this blog, click on "follow" so you will be. Finally, email me at ezyrtr@ca.rr.com to let me know you've entered and how to reach you if you're the winner. This contest will continue throughout the month of October, with a drawing for the winner in early November (in plenty of time for Christmas!), so get busy with the most important step in becoming a winner: get a copy of RED INK and read it! I would really appreciate it, gang!!!

Press Release from New Hope Publishers

New Hope Publishers Releases Book 3 in “Extreme Devotion” Series



By Ashley Stephens



(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.)—September 29, 2010—Kathi Macias releases third book in “Extreme Devotion” series, Red Ink (978-1-59669-279-4, $14.99, N114127). The story of Chinese woman Yang Zhen-Li tells the desperate tale of her incarceration and separation from her family, as she continues to minister to other prisoners, and even to her guards.



An only child, Zhen-Li was raised by party-faithful parents who were devastated when she became a Christian and married a poor Christian farmer. When she becomes pregnant for a second time and refuses to follow the one-child-per-family mandate of the State, Zhen-Li’s parents have her kidnapped and the baby forcibly aborted. Their actions only serve to reinforce Zhen-Li’s determination to spread the good news of Yesu (Jesus), and she is soon arrested for evangelizing children. Given a ten-year sentence, Zhen-Li’s faith is tested beyond anything she could have imagined. And yet, in the midst of the darkest circumstances, the light of the gospel continues to shine victoriously. Zhen-Li, of course, has no idea that in addition to her own prayers, a former missionary to China, now living on the other side of the world, is praying for her diligently—even as she prays for an acquaintance’s granddaughter who is in danger of being caught up in human trafficking. Through it all and binding them all together is the thread of a distant memory of the song “Silent Night,” wooing the most unlikely with the promise of Christmas.



About the Author

Award-winning author Kathi Macias has written more than 30 books, including the award-winning devotional A Moment a Day and the popular “Matthews” mystery novels. Kathi has won many awards, including the Angel Award from Excellence in Media, fiction awards from the San Diego Christian Writers Guild, 2008 Member of the Year from AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association), and the grand prize in an international writing contest. With women’s ministry as her primary interest, Kathi is a popular speaker for women’s retreats, conferences, and churches. A mother and grandmother, Kathi and her husband, Al, call California home.



About New Hope Publishers

Representing more than 50 authors and more than 100 individual works, the mission of New Hope Publishers is to provide books that challenge readers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God. New Hope Publishers is the general trade publishing imprint for WMU, a missions auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. New Hope Publishers is a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).



For more information about Kathi Macias or New Hope Publishers, visit www.newhopepublishers.com. Copies of books may be purchased online or by calling 1-800-968-7301.

Meet my publisher!

I thought you all might enjoy "meeting" my publisher, Andrea Mullins of New Hope Publishers. She's even more beautiful inside!

A Letter from My Publisher--will you help?

Good afternoon,



In an effort to launch our new fiction category at New Hope, we are initiating an Amazon blast on April 27, 2010 (next Tuesday). Our goal is to raise awareness of New Hope Publishers and our authors in a way that enhances visibility and sales for all of our books and our authors. Like every new title we release, we want to make an impact on both the market place and readers’ lives. Please help us make this campaign successful by joining us in this effort! While we will not be doing this for every book, we do want to try this with our first fiction titles. Your investment is also an investment in ongoing sales of all New Hope titles.



Ways you can be involved:

Purchase No Greater Love at Amazon http://ASIN.cc/~CKC_c
Tweet this – “New – Fiction with a Mission – get it today at Amazon - http://ASIN.cc/~CKC_c”
Facebook this – “New – Fiction with a Mission – get it today at Amazon - http://ASIN.cc/~CKC_c”
Newsletter – Send a special blast to your newsletter subscribers promoting this new fiction series from New Hope. If you need any content, please let us know.
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About the book:

Forbidden romance, an unlikely martyr and an even more unlikely hero. Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress (ANC) movement against apartheid, were murdered—16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother Masozi now live and work on an Afrikaner family’s farm.
When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner’s son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family and culture. When cultures clash in life-or-death struggles, Chioma must choose between violence and revenge—or forgiveness and selfless love.
Loosely based on historical events and set near Pretoria, South Africa, in the violent upheaval prior to ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his ascendance to the presidency of South Africa, this story of forbidden romance produces an unlikely martyr who is replaced by one even more unlikely.



Be watching for an upcoming email about our new Author Marketing Program!



Ashley Stephens

WorldCrafts

New Hope Publishers

205.991.4920

astephens@wmu.org

The Truth that sets us free comes from God

Author and Bible teacher Kathy Howard has compiled one of the most reader-friendly apologetics on Bible Truth imaginable. Whether a skeptic, a seeker, or a new believer, this book will clearly and engagingly answer your questions and steer you onto the right path.

God's Truth Revealed is full of real-life stories that show God's Truth, rather than just tell about it. It also contains questions for reflection, scripture memory and Bible reading plans, a dictionary of "churchy words," and a leader's guide for small-group use.

If you or someone you know could benefit from such a book, order one now at www.KathyHoward.org or www.NewHopePublishers.com.

Great new women's devotional book!

Kimberly Sowell, Edna Ellison, Joy Brown, Tricia Scribner, and Marie Alston are frequently invited to host women's retreats and conferences. While each has an individual ministry, their combined purpose is to share a message of wisdom seasoned with humor, boldness with mercy, and truth with joy. These women meet together regularly to relate the new and exciting ways God is working in their lives and to pray. A Passion for Purpose is a product of their praying and sharing times and their desire to inspire women to see God's hand at work in the ordinary events of life. Each author has published individual works; however, they collaborated to publish A Month of Miracles in 2008. And now this, a devotional with contents as delightful as its joyful cover! I encourage you to get a copy of this excellent book via the website of New Hope Publishers, Amazon, or CBD. Then keep it in mind for a Christmas gift for a friend. Blessings!