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Tampa Pastor’s Wife Publishes Memoir of 43 Years in Ministry, Raising Two Pro Baseball Players
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Beverly Gail Raburn has published a new book, "Letters from the Front Porch," a collection of stories spanning her and Johnny’s lengthy tenure at ClairMel Assembly of God in Tampa, Florida, where he served as pastor beginning in 1981, according to the announcement.
Raburn’s writing grew out of devotionals she wrote for the church’s women’s ministry, the announcement states. She comes from a family of Gospel singers who performed across Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and she has described bringing that same storytelling instinct to her decades as a pastor’s wife, mentor, and mother.
The book centers on her and Johnny’s life together, including raising two sons who went on to play professional baseball while, per the announcement, staying grounded in the family’s faith. Raburn describes the collection as covering both the ordinary and the difficult stretches of that life, including seasons of loss alongside seasons the announcement describes as blessing.
"I hope these true stories from our life and ministry provide a blessing and encouragement to every reader," Raburn said, according to the announcement.
"Letters from the Front Porch" is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available at bookstores and through Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a familiar but enduring genre: the ministry memoir written not for theologians but for the congregation that lived it alongside the author, and those tend to find their audience through word of mouth more than marketing.
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Books
New Memoir “Sonflower” Traces Author BreAnna Nikohl Wofford’s Path From Spiritual Emptiness to Faith
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BreAnna Nikohl Wofford has published a new memoir, "Sonflower," tracing what she describes as her journey from spiritual emptiness to a sustained, tested faith, according to the publisher’s announcement. The book is available through Christian Faith Publishing, in stores and through major online retailers including Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and Barnes and Noble.
The memoir centers on Wofford’s personal accounts of prayer, what she describes as encounters with both divine and demonic forces, and her effort to hold to her faith through what the publisher frames as spiritual conflict. The memoir is presented as providing practical tools and approaches for addressing readers’ own spiritual challenges rather than just recounting Wofford’s own.
Wofford, 26, brings a background in psychology and her own experience with mental health challenges to the narrative, according to the announcement, which also describes her as an autistic woman writing from that vantage point. "I wrote this memoir to share how God transformed my life through spiritual awakening and to equip others with the understanding that spiritual warfare is real, tangible, and winnable," Wofford said in the announcement.
The publisher describes the memoir as blending humor with more unsettling passages, moving between what it calls moments of connection with the divine and disorienting encounters with darkness. It’s pitched as both a personal testimony and a practical resource for readers working through their own spiritual questions.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, memoirs built around lived mental health experience and faith are a crowded but persistent category in Christian publishing, and what will set this one apart is whether Wofford’s psychology background gives it more structure than the genre typically offers.
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The work maintains its original character without editorial refinement The published version retains the original handwritten entries, sketches, misspellings, and grammatical rough edges of a diary never intended for an audience, according to the announcement. The authors positioned their role as one of transcribing and preserving rather than revising, with added parody and satirical commentary layered on top of the source material.
The subject matter is ordinary by design: a young person’s day-to-day observations during a decade of significant cultural shift in the U.S. The authors say the appeal is in that ordinariness, arguing that the diary’s inconsistencies and randomness make it feel more genuine than a polished memoir would. "Resurrecting this compilation after nearly forty years has been extraordinarily rewarding," the authors said, adding that they hope readers recognize pieces of their own past in it.
The book is published through Newman Springs Publishing and is listed for sale in paperback, alongside digital editions through Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry finds the format itself the more interesting story here: a journal that maintains its flaws rather than being edited for publication, is a different kind of bet on what readers actually want from a memoir.
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