{"id":15457,"date":"2015-05-26T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:05:53","slug":"murder-mystery-on-flinders-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/05\/26\/murder-mystery-on-flinders-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Mystery on Flinders Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joy<\/a>Earlier in the year I visited the\u00a0enchanting Flinders Island and met some of the Anglican community.\u00a0 One of these people was Dave Freer who is the author of the book “Joy Cometh with the Mourning<\/em>“.\u00a0 I brought a copy of this e book and thoroughly enjoyed\u00a0the captivating read. The characters are well developed and the lively\u00a0plot has\u00a0engaging twists and turns. I am told that\u00a0the book is pitched to 30 year olds, and I can say that it is also enjoyed by this reader at double that age! Enjoy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Bush Church Aid (BCA)\u00a0recently published an article about this book, so I thought I would share this with you.\u00a0 I\u00a0encourage you to buy this book as you will enjoy it and the sale of\u00a0which helps the ministry of the Furneaux\u00a0Islands. The BCA (edited) article:<\/p>\n

“As a fundraiser for our small Anglican Parish here of the Furneaux Islands, one of our congregation \u2013 Dave Freer, who is a professional author of 20 novels \u2013 has written a \u2018Cosy\u2019 Whodunnit and donated the book\u2019s rights to the church.\u00a0 The book is about Reverend Joy, who is a rather timid, urban priest, sent out to a little parish far beyond the black stump. Her predecessor was found dead in his own church under mysterious circumstances. Joy finds herself having to heal the rifts this has caused in a tight-knit rural community. The only way to do that is to solve the mystery surrounding Reverend Hallam\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

“It is a gentle, comfort-read about the quirky characters, the loves and the warmth of country people and has been described as somewhere between an Agatha Christie and a Miss Read novel. L. Jagi Lamplighter, an American children\u2019s author, has said about the book, \u201cIt is the kind of book that one can share with one’s non-Christian friends, and yet the strength of the character’s faith shines through.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The cover was painted by Anne Davis, one of the artists in our congregation.<\/p>\n

“So we offer you a good read with “Joy Cometh With The Mourning<\/em>” (available as an e-book for $3.99, on Amazon, or paper copy for $11.99).”<\/p>\n

To read the complete Autumn edition of the Real Australian, please select this link<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about BCA (Bush Church Aid) please see this link<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

PS A note from the Parish of the Furneaux Islands:<\/p>\n

“Our parish, without a Rector, is waiting, praying and hoping. However on the Furneaux Islands, the church is alive!\u00a0 Exciting opportunities for engaging with the community have challenged us and lifted our spirits.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, our congregations do not often include children and it is difficult to engage meaningfully with young families.\u00a0 But twice this year we have been able to provide programmes for children when there have been ‘pupil-free’ days at the school.”<\/p>\n

Let’s support the Parish through the purchase and gifting of Dave Freer who is the author of the book “Joy Cometh with the Mourning<\/em>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the year I visited the\u00a0enchanting Flinders Island and met some of the Anglican community.\u00a0 One of these people was Dave Freer who is the author of the book “Joy Cometh with the Mourning“.\u00a0 I brought a copy of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15524,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}