Cherish: Behold, I Knock

Book excerpt: Cherish: Behold, I Knock continues the story begun in Cherish: A Still, Small Call about Reverend Andy Garrett, his family, his friends, and the working of God in a rural community called Cherish. This is Andys first church, and even though Andy is from the suburbs of Chicago and knows little about farm country, he and his wife, Abbey, grow close to the flock they serve. It is a church that knows how to deal with bats in the sanctuary, a deaf substitute pianist, and a wild-haired and poetic church secretary. Andy finds out what happens when the water of the baptistry boils over the night before a baptism, and he learns how his unchurched, bartending background can be used by God to change the life of a drug-addicted teen. Most of all, Andy finds an opportunity to share with his parents the love of God and the truth of Christs redemption. It is dramatic and remarkable how God finally works to draw them to himself.