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Author will be using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and You Tube to post videos about his book. He is going to seek interviews in his local papers; Atlanta Journal Constitution, Christian Radio and Fox Radio (Herman Cain) speak at churches, libraries and public schools. He has spoken to both of Atlanta's large Christian Radio stations and plans to speak on one of Atlanta's largest Spanish Christian radio stations. He plans on doing book tours and book signing and will be working with a large Branding company with offices in Atlanta and Washington D.C.
About the author
Jim Boyd has spent most of his adult life living and working among troubled teens. Daily, he faced the possibility of danger and death. He is a former Pastor and retired U.S. Army Chaplain. He has experienced life in various cities around the world. Married, he has 3 children and 3 grandchildren. This is the first of his trilogy of novels dealing with living among violent youth to proclaim the wonderful news of Freedom found in Jesus Christ.
Summary
But Bill isn t there some other way? I didn t give up all I had and come here just to let some punk gang leader kill me?
Foreword
A fiction novel based on true events and reported first hand by one who lived through it.
How a team of young men and women, mostly volunteers, chose to live in a violent neighborhood in New York City, among youth characterized as “Unlovable” “Drug Addicts and Gangsters” ”Rejects of Society,” changed their area from one “terrorized” by drugs and gangs. And how the leader of the Puerto Rican gang is changed by Jesus. Our hero is continually confronted by those who want to kill him, will he survive? Will his faith survive the daily dangers and God’s silence? Does God really care about him? This novel is the first written by a Young Life volunteer.
