My Mennonite Mother Led Me to the Gospel: By Marcia Kauffman Clark

In this book, readers will learn about the remarkable life story of Christmas Carol Kauffman, a renowned Mennonite author, and essayist. This biography was written by her youngest daughter Marcia.

Softcover 294 pages.

Christmas Carol Kauffman was one of the most prolific and popular authors of the Mennonite and Amish world. Even today, more than forty years after her passing, Carol's books are among the most widely read within that community. What is the story of her life and from whence did she derive the gift of the written word that has touched so many readers over the last 85 years?

Carol's youngest daughter, Marcia Kauffman Clark, spent years researching her mother's life to answer that question. The result is a fascinating tribute to a woman who, while gifted in writing was not without her own personal challenges and heartbreaks. Despite those and indeed perhaps because of them she was able to draw from her own life to give realism to her characters and subject matter.

What makes this edition of the story especially unique, is the fact that in her later life, Marcia found and joined the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. She credits her mother's faith and love of the Lord for preparing her to receive the Restored Gospel. In this special edition of the book, Marcia fronts the work with an introduction that includes her own conversion story and the impact it had on her parents and her family life thereafter.