This giveaway is closed. Winners have been announced on September 9. Thank you! 🙂
I am so excited to be offered not only a review copy of this book but 5 copies to give away to you the readers!
For Cope, life in her small Missouri town seemed perfect; she ran a hair salon, enjoyed a happy family life and lived in a beautiful home. Yet, she explains, I have to say, I put on a hell of a performance. For a long time, I even had myself convinced of how good and right everything was in my life. Her ideal was shattered in 1999 when Jantsen, her 15-year-old son, died suddenly from a heart ailment; this moving memoir recounts Cope’s transformation and growth after her world collapsed. Her metamorphosis began after she accepted an invitation from a friend to visit Vietnam. Though Cope was wrapped in personal grief following the death of her son, the trip illuminated for her the superficial environment she inhabited. After visiting a local orphanage, Cope found for the first time in her life a sense of wholeness and purpose. Soon she stepped outside her own circumscribed world and began creating better lives for the abused, neglected and at-risk children she encountered, first in Vietnam then in Cambodia and Ghana. This is a wonderful story of a woman whose personal tragedy gave birth to a gift and how she fulfilled that legacy to make the world a better place.
To win a chance for one of these books:
1. Receive one entry for commenting here with if you could help anywhere in the world and money was not an object, where would you go and what would you do? (actually – that’s such a great question you get two entries for answering.)
2. A third entry (optional) and by blogging about this giveaway or twittering about it
3. And a fourth entry is available for commenting on any one of my other reviews… please be sure to let me know here that you did.
Remember to please leave different comments for each entry – it is easier to count out the winners that way. No po boxes and please USA entries only. Make sure I also have a way to contact you in the event that you are one of the winners.
Giveaway ends on August 16th EXTENDED to 26th. Thanks everyone and good luck! 🙂
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Umm, how random I just started reading this book tonight. I am only on page 38 and have cried my eyes out!! Have book so don’t enter me in giveaway.
I would help my homeland of the Philippines. I’d want to insure that proper vaccinations were given; I’d improve the education system so that they can grasp the unlimited possibilities. It would take a lot of work, but even if 1 person learned and appreciated the opportunities around them, I’d be happy.
I will add this to my twitter and blog! 🙂
I would actually stay right where I am. There is much need right here in New Orleans, and I would love to be able to help so many that need it with restoring life to what it was pre-2005.
I would love to enter! Where would i go? Probably here in the US, the homeless families.
Great question!
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I would help out in Haiti. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. In fact it is so poor it’s not even considered a third world country because it’s not even developing. I would help all my brothers and sisters in Christ build homes and schools and clean water supplies.
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I would go run an orphanage in Zimbabwe!
Entry 1
I would go to Africa (Sudan & other needy countries) and make low interest microloans to people to help them buy farm equipment, fertilizer, and to set up irrigation systems to grow food and help eliminate (or at least ease) poverty in the worst affected parts of the African continent.
Entry 2 for answering..
I would go to Africa (Sudan & other needy countries) and make low interest microloans to people to help them buy farm equipment, fertilizer, and to set up irrigation systems to grow food and help eliminate (or at least ease) poverty in the worst affected parts of the African continent.
I tweeted this giveaway!
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What a great question! I teach in a school with a high poverty level. I would help the people in the community that I teach in. I would contribute to our free after school program and increase our free summer school program. I would provide books to many of the kids in the community. We also have a high percentage of refugees from many different countries. I would love to get books in their native languages (either written or on tape with tape recorders provided) in their homes.
I think Africa has a great need for our help and prayers.
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I would help kids in inner city Baltimore school system and improve their schools. I saw a documentary on HBO and it made me sad to see how much they lack.
I would go to underdeveloped countries and teach children.
Does helping animals count? I would love to work with trap/neuter/return feral cat programs. I’ve done a bit on my own, but it quickly gets expense, and the cats just never end! 🙂
I would help in Uganda. I would help build wells and build better housing.
#2 I would help in Uganda. I would help build wells and build better housing.
Honduras all the way….now just send the darn book!
I would help those here in Minnesota that are struggling each day. Working for a non profit agency that serves low income people, I see immediate needs every day for our local community people.
Hey Sheila! Since I had the book I didn’t think to answer the question, but I want to answer it.
I think I would travel to Africa. My son’s father is Kenyan and I would get to know that culture and help with their needs. There are so many places suffering in Africa. When you start thinking about the world it seems impossible to narrow down one area to help…esp if you didn’t have money as a barrier. If I could I would travel the world trying to make a difference. It has always been my dream, but having my daughter at 18 kind of stopped that and put me in realitly. Work, work, work…
I love this response! I go to Honduras once a year and work with street kids and I will do it as long as God allows! I am enjoying all the responses on here to this question. I agree, help is needed everywhere. Imagine the impact on the world if everyone helped out each other and really did love their neighbors as themselves?
Thanks for your response 🙂
I’d go to Darfur. I just can’t imagine the hopelessness they must feel there.
I would go to the Providence Rescue mission near my hometown that helps the homeless. I would donate a lot of money and spend a lot of time there. Because God knows that they need it.
WOW! I think I would help close to home first…and then go to Africa and India!
I’d like to help by making sure there is clean water…wells and such…ways to grow food…and teach them how…all in the name of Jesus Christ!
Just a note that I’ve posted this at Winning Readings:
http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/07/jantsens-gift.html
I would also help right here at home. Maryland. But there is so much need everywhere – I think I would also go to Africa and help put in clean water wells so no one would have to drink dirty water!
Thanks for the contest!
I know that there are many places in the world where people need help, but first I would follow the principal of “charity begins at home” and provide needed services to the homeless population. In my social work career, I saw many people right here in my own city who desperately needed a helping hand.
I’m at chezraine@yahoo.com.
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The United States. There are so many people who are hungry, and having trouble taking care of their children, and their homes right now. I wish that I could help make sure that no one in this country ever had to go hungry again. In all the world too.
I would help families all over the world who needed financial help be it hospital bills, barely scraping by, giving their children the chance to go to college, etc. I really wish I had the resources to help people out.
Thank you!
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If possible I would stay here in our country and join Teach for America and teach inner-city children with the hope of reaching at least a few children who are intelligent, creative and hardworking and just need a hand to help them get out and move on from their surroundings. I’ve always admired Teach for America and the individuals who give several yeears to the organization, teaching in schools where education isn’t the main focus.
Amy
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That is a great response!
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I commented on your review for “Suzanne’s Diary” by James Patterson!
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What a wonderful giveaway. I would help out where I live since I believe that this would be so beneficial. In the fall I plan to volunteer and assist with literacy ath the public schools.
The United States.
Brenda
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This sounds like a wonderful book. Good luck to everyone who is entered! I’m in Canada, or I’d be entering, too! ;p
I would travel to Vietnam and volunteer at an orphanage. My friend did that and she said it was an amazing and humbling experience
I would go to Kunming, Yunnan, China and work in the orphanage where my daughter lived until she was 8 months old. I would take care of the kids, cook, wash clothes, clean, or anything else I could do to help.
nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net
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I would go to Kunming, Yunnan, China and work in the orphanage where my daughter lived until she was 8 months old. I would take care of the kids, cook, wash clothes, clean, or anything else I could do to help.
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I would get the homeless in our country off the streets and back in a home, help them find jobs, etc. It is sooooo SAD SAD SAD the government shells out billions for a stupid car program and we ignore our Vets and FAMILIES who’ve lost their homes that may very well live on the streets in our own hometowns! Hello.