Clergy Stories

Maggie, a disillusioned and adulterous 39 year old preacher's wife, takes a job with a humanitarian organization in Africa. In the course of her adventures, she meets a young man.

Fourteen-year-old Ernst has the looks and voice of an angel in early nineteenth-century Austria. These attributes mark him inevitably to be the catamite of a rich sponsor. He is resolved to this, and is initiated by Baron Otto von Lauffen. When the boy’s voice changes, the baron transfers Ernst to an older boys’ choir and new voracious choir master. Ernst wants to be a painter, though, and meets one younger and more desirable than the baron or the choir master.

Young Misty looked like a teenager but she was almost 40. She had the same hex just like her grandmother and the other females in her clan. Age and time were not normal in the McCoy family as far as the females were concerned. Besides, it was par for the course for a heritage of witchcraft.

“Sammie's eyes widened, and she opened her mouth to protest, but no sound came out. His touch was warm, and she felt a strange feeling blossom in her belly. "Sometimes, Sammie," he whispered, "We must face these temptations to understand them. To conquer them."”

The establishment of the Church of Divine Intervention was caused by a silly accident that ended Dixie's career as a circus performer. Now, the church is joined by Deacon Johnson a defrocked minister of dubious repute.

A Mission Outreach Story
This is the same story as Chapter 1 of Mission Work, but written from a different perspective-that of the mission organizer. It hints at the possible contents of a 3rd Chapter for Mission Work. This story is low on dialogue and some is directly duplicated from Mission Work.

The church was more of a way station for migrant travelers than a real parish center for the teachings of the church. Brother Harold was a good man but his weakness of the flesh sometimes caused him to fall away from the path of the true belief. The temptation was too great for him to ignore.