{"id":2369,"date":"2014-02-10T22:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2014-02-10T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:02:31","slug":"the-calling-of-emily-evans-by-janette-oake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-calling-of-emily-evans-by-janette-oake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calling Of Emily Evans by Janette Oake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"567301\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1347730662l\/567301.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calling-Emily-Evans-Women-West-ebook\/dp\/B00AFWM0JW\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1392086427&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+calling+of+emily+evans\">The Calling of Emily Evans by Janette Oake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think women should be allowed to preach, leading their own church?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book. It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve read a Janette Oake book.<\/p>\n<p>After Emily Evans is finished with her Bible school training, she feels called to start a church. As a young woman, her options are limited &#8211; how can a female be chosen to start a church. The church committee sends Emily to a remote town to start her church &#8211; alone. I thought the premise of this story was extremely interesting &#8211; it&#8217;s a historical story, yet, there&#8217;s a woman leading a church. I loved seeing Emily trying to fit into the small town life, attempting to share the gospel with the town&#8217;s inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>This story also shows how the people in Emily&#8217;s town struggle with their faith. There&#8217;s a battered wife who struggles to raise her children and another woman who is raising her children alone.<\/p>\n<p>I loved reading about Emily leading her small church, writing her sermons each Saturday, sharing her faith in God. I also loved her title &#8211; Emily was known as a deaconess. I&#8217;d never heard that term until I read this story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what do you think about women in the pulpit? Do you think women should be able allowed to start their own churches?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=cecelia%20dowdy%20truly%20yours\">My romance collection is on sale for 99 cents each. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/johns-quest.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/johns-quest.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"207\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"26525EB\" alt=\"26525EB\" src=\"http:\/\/g.christianbook.com\/g\/ebooks\/covers\/w185\/2\/26525eb_w185.png\" width=\"111\" height=\"180\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bittersweet Memories\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1267228854l\/6439949.jpg\" width=\"89\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/#sthash.NaONHmWr.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calling of Emily Evans by Janette Oake Do you think women should be allowed to preach, leading their own church? 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