BENSON, Ariz., Feb. 20, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Musing over the past events of our lives is a very fascinating feat. Those times were significant or paltry, exciting or dull -- but still they are a bunch of memoirs that help us transport ourselves to our present existence. Let us take a look at the lighthearted glimpses at life in a small town Pastor's family in a mesmeric story of author Arlo T. Janssen, Parsonage in a Pear Tree.
Parsonage in a Pear Tree is not about a study or a biography of a pastor's family, but a recollection of the memorable events that transpire in the author's life with his loved ones. This tome relates about his early life in his small hometown village, Odessa, where he was born and spent his growing years. Being the seventh child in the family allows him to experience many things within his relationship with his parents and his siblings. It tackles about his adventures -- bathing in the snowstorms, sliding on the hills, ice-skating in and near Odessa, and more events that are exciting, which lingers in his thoughts, especially the Christmas celebrations they enjoy every year at the parsonage. As a pastor's child, he also had some bizarre moments -- it wasn't easy adjusting to the people who expect much from a child of a preacher. But there were bright moments, ordeals, and fun activities at the parsonage -- he grew with them lively and firm. The best thing to remember was, making fun of the Christmas song, Twelve Days of Christmas -- changing the word "partridge" to "parsonage."
This riveting tale is very inspiring, full of fun and adventures, of lesson-filled occurrences and worth-remembering moments that shaped the life of the people in that small town -- and in a parsonage -- where the author enjoys his existence. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Arlo T. Janssen, born and reared in a Lutheran parsonage in Odessa, Minnesota, taught in parochial schools in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. After graduating from Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, in 1955, Arlo served parishes in Indiana and Pennsylvania. Moving to Arizona in 1962, he directed the Mule Mountain Christian Youth Camp in Bisbee and attended the University of Arizona, earning two more degrees. From 1966 to 1999 Janssen taught English and speech at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, and wrote textbooks for teaching English as second language. Living today in Benson, Arizona, with his wife, Ofelia, he still writes and assists in Lutheran parishes, including a Spanish-language parish in Tucson. After all these years, Janssen loves most to write and talk about growing up in a parsonage in the village of Odessa, in western Minnesota, near the South Dakota border.
Parsonage in a Pear Tree * by Arlo T. Janssen
Lighthearted Glimpses at Life in a Small Town Pastor's Family
Publication Date: 01/29/2009
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