Hope Beyond Our Sorrows: Learning to Live with Life-Changing Loss - April Yamasaki

Yamasaki, April: - April Yamasaki is an ordained minister with over 25 years of experience in congregational ministry, an editor, and the author of Sacred Pauses , Four Gifts , On the Way with Jesus , This Ordinary, Extraordinary Life , and other books on living with faith and hope. She currently serves as resident author with Valley CrossWay Church, which is a liturgical worship community; edits the daily devotional magazine Rejoice!; has a new role as a spiritual formation mentor; continues to write both online and in print publications; and often speaks in other churches and settings. She blogs on faith, life, and ministry at AprilYamasaki.com and WhenYouWorkForTheChurch.com. April holds a master of Christian studies from Regent College. She was happily married to her high school sweetheart until his death two years ago from cancer-related complications. Though grieving, she is grateful for a wonderfully supportive family and church community, good work, good friends, and God's mercies new every morning