Into Your Hands: Memoir and Witness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516800049)

Since the age of eight when he first walked his church's red-carpeted aisle for salvation, Jerry Flora has been a Jesus follower. Answering a call to ministry, he trained at the former Ashland College and Seminary. He served as a pastor first in a small village in Indiana and then in an urban neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Graduate degrees from Fuller Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary readied him for a teaching career. He returned to Ashland Seminary where he taught for thirty years. At retirement in 2002 Dr. Flora was named Professor Emeritus of Theology and Spiritual Formation. Although he has lived from coast to coast, he is a Hoosier by birth and a Buckeye by adoption. Along the way he has been a janitor, a caddy, a lawn-care worker, and retreat speaker. He was co-founder of the LifeSpring School of Spiritual Formation and its co-director for ten years. He was also a guest instructor at Pennsylvania's Kairos School of Spiritual Formation from 1995 to 2008. Dr. Flora and his wife Julie have been married almost sixty years. They have two daughters, Janet and Ann, and two grandchildren, Vanessa and Matthew. A soul-friend to many, he relishes family and friends, reading and music, and sunrise and sunset.