Patricia st john book set

Patricia st john books in order
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John.” Born in Southhampton, England in 1919 to the famous missionary and Bible teacher Harold St. John and his delightful wife, Ella.

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If you were to ask me, “Who is the greatest Christian children’s author of all time?” I would answer you, “Without question, Patricia St. John.” Born in Southhampton, England in 1919 to the famous missionary and Bible teacher Harold St. John and his delightful wife, Ella. The third of five children, Patricia was one of many in a missionary-studded family. Her brother, Farnham, founded a missions hospital in Algiers, Morocco where Patricia worked for many years. She also served in her younger years as a house mother at her aunt’s Christian boarding school. Patricia’s childhood was full of fun. Her siblings were lively and highly devoted to one another. Her mother was a modern-day saint putting up with her husband’s travel and vision for ministry. Because of her father’s travels for the Gospel, Patricia’s parents were separated for long periods of time. Her mother never complained, but maintained a joyful outlook no matter what!

When Patricia was a little girl, her mother realized it would be cheaper to live in Switzerland

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I did not grow up knowing Jesus, but I have many friends who did. And I love to ask those friends what they enjoyed reading as a child. While I read Goosebumps, I wonder aloud, what did you read? Some shrug (they can’t remember), some say they read Goosebumps, too, but most read missionary biographies.

This surprised me. I definitely wasn’t into, say, presidential biographies as a kid. I dabbled in classics. I scarfed down The Babysitters’ Club. But what kid sits around and reads biographies for fun? This perplexed me—until I started reading missionary biographies. Then suddenly I understood.

A well-written biography gives us a window into someone else’s life, with a perspective we don’t see when we live alongside a person. Through a biography, we see how that person’s childhood influenced their adult life and how their work transformed over decades. We get to look back from our vantage point in history and see how their life has altered the world or blessed others. We understand things they couldn’t have known wh

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Patricia St. John

English writer

Patricia Mary St. John
Born	(1919-04-05)5 April 1919 Southampton, England
Died	15 August 1993(1993-08-15) (aged 74) England
Occupation(s)	Writer, missionary nurse

Patricia Mary St. John (5 April 1919 – 15 August 1993) was a Britishevangelical writer and missionary. She was known as one of the most prolific evangelical writers of fiction in the latter part of the 20th century. Her book, Treasures of the Snow, was translated into a South African language - Afrikaans - as well. She worked for much of her life as a missionarynurse in Morocco. During her time as a house mother at Clarendon School for Girls which was run by her aunt, she wrote Treasures of the Snow and The Tanglewoods' Secret. Her later novels Star of Light and Secret of the Fourth Candle were based on her experiences in Tangiers. She lived for some years until her death in Canley, Coventry in 1993.^[1]

Early years

The third of five children (the others being Farnham, John, Oliver and Hazel), Patricia was born on 5 Apri