{"product_id":"mountain-ministry-kenneth-k-humphreys-9781949888348","title":"Mountain Ministry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen I retired from engineering, no one could have told me that I would enter the ministry. I had considered becoming a pastor many years earlier but dismissed the idea as being impractical. I had a wife and four small children to support and couldn't see how I could possibly take off the requisite amount of time to study for the ministry, so I continued to work as an engineer, eventually earning a Doctor of Engineering Management degree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI worked as an engineer in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Morgantown, WV where I served as a professor at West Virginia University and later as Executive Director of my professional society, the American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE International).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI took early retirement in 1993 and my wife Betsy and I moved to Granite Falls, North Carolina where we became very active members of the Waldensian Presbyterian Church in Valdese, NC, and later the Fairview Presbyterian Church in Lenoir, NC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile at Fairview I learned about a program of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina to educate lay people to better serve Christ and I enrolled in the program. At that point, I had no intention to become a pastor, but I could feel God's call, and I resisted it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Presbytery's program consisted of two years of classes on alternate Saturdays. The classes covered, among many other things, preaching, and I got hooked. I couldn't deny God's call any longer. I went well beyond the requirements of the program, then called the \"School of the Laity\", and purchased every book mentioned by the instructors, even casually, and voraciously read them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth K. Humphreys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949888347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949888348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parson's Porch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Kenneth K. Humphreys","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519698088191,"sku":"9781949888348","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82c66781-f11d-4d2c-9d75-7a3e5d1e12f0.jpg?v=1778738266","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mountain-ministry-kenneth-k-humphreys-9781949888348","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}