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When the ever-cautious Val Locklier finally agrees to a cross-country move with her nine-year-old son to take a job with her best friend, Molly, everything she had planned for the future unravels within the first week. After pushing aside her anxieties about renting an apartment from Molly's twin brother, whom she barely knows, she accepts an invitation for an elite filmmaker's mentorship. Caught between her insecurities and new possibilities, she feels completely unprepared for the challenges ahead. Pastor Miles McKenzie returns home from abroad to discover that not only does he have an intriguing new tenant living upstairs, he's been banished to a ministry on life support. Disillusioned and restless, he pursues a relationship with Val without stopping to consider the timing or asking God to direct his steps. As Val struggles to stop hiding behind the camera and Miles wrestles with shattered expectations, they'll find that authentic love and sacrifice must go hand in hand.
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1 primary bookMcKenzie Family Romance is a 1-book series first released in 2022 with contributions by Nicole Deese.
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Absolutely lovely story about a single mom looking for her adult purpose by exploring filmmaking, and a missions pastor seeking to make sense of watching the church and job he loves crumble around him.
Both characters engaged me easily and deeply, but while I identified more with Val personally, I identified fully with Miles’s job woes, because I work in a church that’s had more than its fair share of change in the past two years. The words from the wise counselors in the story, especially Rev, Trisha, and Nurse Charlotte, are reminders we should all have about the importance of even the “smallest” bits of ministry.
Recommended for everyone, and maybe especially for stuffy church employees who read little more than weighty theology tomes. :)
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free reading copy. A favorable review was not required.