Böcker av Lawrence Balleine

Encouraging Angels is the fourth novella in a series that documents the sabbatical journey of Michael Lattimore, a middle school social science teacher who travels to the dairy farm regions of his home state - Wisconsin. He wants to see how the changes of the past three decades have affected the average family farmer. Whereas Entertaining Angels is a story of change, loss and healing; An Angel Among Us addresses change, brokenness and reconciliation; and Angels in Disguise deals with change, loss and new beginnings; Encouraging Angels explores change, fear and encouragement.

Michael felt compelled to turn off Highway N and proceed up the long gravel driveway. He was on the third day of his two-week, late June escapade when he spotted it. It was a farmhouse that looked just like his childhood home. He had to have a closer look. Not being in a hurry, making the stop was no problem.Michael had finalized plans for his trip a couple of months earlier. His goal was to meander through the state of Wisconsin and visit with several farmers along the way. He wanted to find out firsthand how the changes that had been occurring in agriculture during the past twenty-five to thirty years were affecting rural folks, especially dairy farmers.