FOWLER, FAITH - This Far By Faith

Canton, Michigan: David Crumm Media, LLC, 2014. First Edition (?). Paperback. ISBN: 193988070X. 8.90 X 5.98 X 0.63 inches; xvo, 222 pages; SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON BOOKPLATE inside front cover; bookplate reads 'With Great Thanks from Faith Fowler and the Cass Community Publishing House. 'This Far by Faith' Book Launch, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI, September 27, 2014'. Soft cover has pink spine with brown lettering. Pages are clean and tight. "Faith Fowler, 55, is not your typical pastor. She is funnier. And more blunt. And, Lord, does she get things done. Tireless, humble, with a shock of white-blonde hair and a cackling laugh that sounds like a parrot being roasted, she houses people, feeds people and has created 85 full-time jobs for once-struggling Detroiters who now, among other things, turn old tires into sandals. She is the most important currency of our city, a loving, egoless, inspiring leader who doesn't see color, doesn't see class, who looks at our poorest, most neglected citizens and sees only hope and opportunity....She is often the only white face at the funerals she officiates or the church groups she addresses. It doesn't faze her. Despite being called Faith ("someone once asked if that was my stage name," she says) , Fowler had to push her way to the pulpit...You can't talk Faith out of anything. She ignored people warning her to stay out of inner-city Detroit, to stay away from the poor, the addicted, the developmentally disabled. Instead, she embraced them all. She offered them dignity. She started a culinary arts program, a warming center. She created a Miss Cass pageant after being told that many of her challenged congregants never had a milestone to be proud of. Eight years after coming to the church, she founded Cass Community Social Services, which has blossomed into one of Detroit's most effective and original charitable agencies — creating everything from apartment buildings for transitional clients to a green warehouse turning the city's garbage into retail products, from floor mats to sandals that are selling, online, around the world." [article by Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 24 September, 2014]..And humor. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine .

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