GREEN VALLEY, Ariz., December 10, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- There is more to life than just getting up, going to work and coming home to the television. Life is about experience, and few know this better than Natalie Barber and her family. Her new book, Passport to Faith (now available through 1stBooks), recounts her years spent in missions in various states and foreign countries throughout the world.
Passport to Faith is the true story of Barber, a young teacher, and her family. She tells how they ventured into the world as missionaries, traveling to places like South America, Spain and the southwestern United States. She details her family's problems adjusting to new cultures and languages. The book also recounts how she, her husband and their two small children had to confront countless dangers, like riding on a railroad flatcar in a thunderstorm across the flooded high plains of Bolivia, being stranded on the side of an Andean mountain and having to flee tear gas during an uprising.
Amidst the hardship and strife, Barber looks for the beauty, whether in a barren desert or while hiking the Andes, and ponders life's big questions. While living and traveling in a plethora of countries, she gleans moments of meaning through her faith and marvels at the world around her. Barber and her family experienced joy, sorrow, disappointments, funny moments, times of immense beauty and more adventure than they ever dreamed, and now, she tells their story.
Passport to Faith is more than a travelog. It is an understanding of what it means to be human in a world of uncertainty, hope and wonder.
Barber graduated from the University of Vermont and studied journalism at Northwestern University. She and her husband participated in missions in Chile, Bolivia and Spain and church projects in Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky. They were recently recognized for 50 years of service under the United Methodist Church. Barber has published numerous articles in religious journals and wrote an award-winning church history book. She has written one other book titled Dr. And Mrs. Fix-It: The Story of Frank and Bessie Beck (Friendship Press).
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