For Pete's Sake (ePub)
mental facilities, schools, disconnected families, underprivileged children, an
abandoned spouse, and all we who face
our limitations and dont know where to...
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mental facilities, schools, disconnected families, underprivileged children, an
abandoned spouse, and all we who face
our limitations and dont know where to turn?
A Nigerian proverb says, Not to know is bad.
unthinkable. Not to care is unforgiveable.
Let me tell you about Pete, my
Dad, so that you may know him. I wrote this book feeling that maybe you would
want to know about this mental patient who spent forty-seven years in
confinement. His life seemed worthless,
of no value to society. After his death
at eighty-seven, I thought again, this time with hope that there was a way to
redeem his existence.
FOR PETES SAKE helps
of mental health issues in our ordinary circumstances.
our childhood and schooling in rural Sullivan County, Indiana, through the
State hospital and nursing home experiences of Pete, through the triumph of my
Mom, through questions of faith, purpose, and meaning, we learned to hope and
care.
Meet PETE as Rip Van Winkle II
and learn, hope, and care about the mentally ill and their families.
Mr. Gilbreath
is a native of rural Sullivan County, Indiana.
His early education was in the Graysville
Consolidated School. He attended Taylor
University, 1948-1950. In 1952 he received a BA degree in Sociology and Bible Studies from Evansville
College, Evansville,
Indiana.
His Master’s in Divinity was granted by Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston,
IL. in 1959. In 1978 Mr. Gilbreath
earned a Master’s in Counseling from Indiana
State University,
Terre Haute, IN. He served as Pastor of United Methodist
Churches in southern Indiana for
over thirty-five years before taking disability in 1984. He is married to Jessie Neier-Gilbreath. Foutz of Sullivan
County.
- Autor: Gene Gilbreath
- 2003, 360 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1410744809
- ISBN-13: 9781410744807
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2003
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