Pearl Girls: Encountering Grit, Experiencing Grace blog tour!

I'd like to share about a special project - The Pearl Girls™. Like the oyster, we go about our everyday lives until the unexpected happens. Yet God's grace covers our pain and transforms it into a beautiful pearl. Pearl Girls™ is a book of real life stories from women contributors (Debbie Macomber, Shaunti Feldhahn, Lisa Jefferson, Robin Jones Gunn, Melody Carlson, and many more) about how God used something difficult in their lives to work good.



This book was compiled by my friend Margaret McSweeney (below far left). She founded Pearl Girls a few years back to help fund the work of two charities that help women and children here in the states and in African villiages. She's donating 100% of the royalties from book sales to WINGS and HANDS OF HOPE.

Last summer I attended the Pearl Girl Tea in Denver - what a treat to gather with old friends and meet new ones!



The essay I contributed to the book is called, "God's Plan... Not Mine."

"When God made it clear that He wanted me to help young women facing crisis pregnancies, it wasn't about how successful I could become in life. Instead, God's plan was about what He wanted to do in the world around me."


Check out more of the photos from the Tea here (Robin Jones Gunn, Gary Chapman and his wife, Beth Adams (Guideposts), my fab agent Janet Kobobel-Grant, Kim Woodhouse, and many more!

Buy Pearl Girls here and then post your own "pearl" here!

Pearl Girls from Michael J Garvey on Vimeo.