by Margaret A. Register
(ISBN#978-1-60647-976-6 XulonPress, $22.99)
From language study to the country of
“But sometimes I felt false because ‘on stage’ [at
American churches] my holy-self was demonstrated with wonderful stories from
Viña,” writes Margaret Register, who with her husband, Joe, served Latin
America as missionaries for 38 years starting in 1967. “Missionaries never
talked in public about the painful times. I dared not mention the pain of
Intrigued with Register’s transparency, a pastor
states, “I could hardly put the book down to do other things. I laughed,
sometimes had tears, and was amazed at the stories. I learned of the tremendous
struggles that missionaries go through—finances, sickness, rejection, etc. I
guess to us here in the States, missionary life looks a little too glamorous.”
“Who knew that missionary life was more than love
offerings and extended vacations to exotic places?” says another reader.
Margaret Register has done a great service to the body
of Christ in writing No Place for Plastic Saints. She excels in
painting delightful and vivid word pictures so that you, the reader, feel you
are there with her as she walks through each dramatic story. This is truly an
authentic account of the good, the bad, and the miraculous in the life of a
dedicated Pentecostal missionary family. This book is a must read!
–reviewed by Juanita
Cunningham Blackburn, AGWM missionary; Instructional Development Specialist for
Global University School of Graduate Studies; Editor of the monthly newsletter
for the AGWM member care team, CaringConnection.
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Contact: Margaret A. Register
maggie.register@gmail.com
Author Meets Challenges of Life on the Mission Field
New memoir chronicles many surprising miracles and victories
LONGWOOD, FL—New from Xulon Press is No Place for Plastic Saints: Earthquakes, Chicken Feet and Candid Confessions of a Missionary Wife, a remarkable story that chronicles how a simple girl from the Midwest finds being a missionary is not what she expected, and struggles to adapt to a foreign culture that brings her both pain and surprising joy. In Margaret A. Register’s compelling new memoir, the author describes her experiences of loneliness, fear, frustration, and failure, along with surprising miracles and victories. She learns that she does not want to be what she dubs a “plastic saint”—that is, brittle and hollow and stuck in neutral instead of real, transparent, and pliable. It is her hope that these writings will inspire, inform, and challenge readers to know that God listens and responds to cries for His help.
Says Register, “How does God call a person to become a missionary and cope with foreign foods, different customs, and learn to fit in? You’ll see! I want you to laugh with me, sit beside me, and even cry with me. Sometimes God answered my prayers. Sometimes He didn’t. Still, tiny flames of faith burned within my heart. May my experiences inspire, inform, and challenge you to know that God listens and responds to cries for help.”
A missionary for 38 years, Register ministered in various countries and on television programs that continue to reach 200 countries on 14 satellites even today. The author walked through despair after she, her husband, and their two children departed their homeland for
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