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Episode #246 - Featuring Lisa Hatfield

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HELPING KIDS DISCOVER HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE TO GOD by SANDRA KAY CHAMBERS
12/1/2023 1:50:00 PM BY Patti Shene

FEATURED BOOK: Fingerprint Devotions:

40 Devotions To Help You Realize You Are a Kid Uniquely Created by God for a Purpose

AUTHOR: Sandra Kay Chambers

PUBLISHER: Ambassador International Publishers

GENRE: Children’s Devotional (Stand Alone)

TARGET AGE: 8-12

 

 

 

IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME AUTHOR SANDRA KAY CHAMBERS TO THE OVER 50 WRITER. SANDRA TELLS US ABOUT THE INSPIRATION BEHIND AND PURPOSE FOR HER UNIQUE DEVOTIONAL FOR KIDS.

 

 

 

SANDRA IS OFFERING A GIVEAWAY! SIMPLY LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW TO ENTER THE DRAWING FOR A PAPERBACK COPY OF FINGERPRINT DEVOTIONS.

 

 

HELPING KIDS DISCOVER HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE TO GOD

 

 

 

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Sandra Kay Chambers

 

 

 

Writers are always asked when they first considered themselves a writer. I guess my answer is when I won an essay contest in elementary school. In high school I had a great English teacher who inspired me to major in English in college. After earning my teaching degree, I went on to get an MA in Education, focusing on Learning Disabilities.

 

 

 

Teaching kept me pretty busy, but I also did some freelance writing and have since published hundreds of news stories, profiles, lifestyle stories, travel and feature stories for more than 20 publications. In 2014, I self-published a book on prayer: Lord, It’s Boring in My Prayer Closet: How to Revitalize Your Prayer Life.

 

 

 

As far as my children’s writing, one morning during the COVID lockdown, I decided to write a picture book about my daughter just for fun. I liked doing it so much I kept writing more picture books and when one book won an award at a writer’s conference, it inspired me to keep going.

 

 

 

I never thought about writing a kid’s devotional until I discovered some interesting fingerprint facts online. I kept researching the topic and writing these facts down. I believe God gave me an idea to put them into a kid’s devotional. I had read a few current award-winning children’s devotionals that paired fun scientific facts with a related devotional, a scripture, a journal activity and a prayer.

 

 

 

I started pitching my idea and finally received a contract from Ambassador International Publishers in May 2022. As every writer knows, it’s a long journey from contract to publication, but my devotional was published a year and a half later on Nov. 7, 2023.

 

 

 

I think this book is important, because we’ve all heard the news of a mental health crisis among our children and teens since COVID. Not only that, but social media has been shown to play a role in making children and teens feel like they don’t measure up.

 

 

 

As a Christian, I believe that God created every person to be unique, one-of-a-kind, with gifts and talents they can use to make the world a better place. This book helps kids discover their worth, value and purpose in life. There’s also a free downloadable activity packet available to download from my website when the book is purchased.

 

 

 

From the beginning of this project, my prayer has been that this devotional will reach not only children in Christian homes, but children who are not being raised in a Christian setting or attend church. God supernaturally connected me with the church outreach director for 7Homes, a Christian, NC-based foster and adoption agency. I am donating books for their “care bags” they give to kids who have to be taken out of their homes, sometimes suddenly. The devotionals will also be used for Christmas gifts for their foster children.

 

 

 

Book Cover Blurb for Fingerprint Devotions:

Out of approximately 7.9 billion people on earth today, no two people have the same fingerprints! Our fingerprints show how unique and special each person is to God. This devotional book for kids ages 8-12 ties together fun fingerprint facts with a scripture, short teaching, a fun fingerprint fact, a journal question or activity and a prayer.

 

 

DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE A COMMENT TO BE PLACED IN THE DRAWING TO WIN A PAPERBACK COPY OF FINGERPRINT DEVOTIONS BETWEEN NOW AND MONDAY, DECEMBER 11TH AT MIDNIGHT MT. (U.S. residents only eligible).

BY LEAVING A COMMENT, YOU GRANT PERMISSION FOR YOUR EMAIL TO BE REVEALED TO THE AUTHOR IF YOU ARE THE WINNER TO FACILITATE RECEIPT OF YOUR BOOK.

 

 

 

Sandra Kay Chambers has been a teacher and writer for most of her professional life. She is the author of two award-winning books and the contributor to two compilation books. She is also a journalist with over 700+ news stories. She is the host of the 5-Minute Parenting Podcast. You can find out more about Sandra on her website.

 

 

 

 

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