Shares recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, seafood, meat, poultry, side dishes, breads, and desserts, and suggests menus for cocktail parties, a Valentine's dinner, a picnic, a formal dinner, and a Kwanzaa/Christmas buffet.
From the mother of Grammy Award winning singer Michael W. Smith, make your friends and family feel welcome, one meal at a time. "Welcome to my home as we share life and laughter around the table. It means sharing my life in such a way that there is always room for one more."–Barbara Smith Some people naturally have the gift of hospitality, instinctively creating inviting, mouth-watering meals and a warm environment that assures guests, “We’re glad you’re here.” Fortunately, says food expert Barbara Smith, the rest of us have the same potential to make guests feel nurtured, and here she offers an unforgettable treasury of recipes, tips, and how-to’s for everyone with the spiritual gift of hospitality–and for the rest of us who want to look like we do. In Food That Says Welcome you’ ll learn to: • Make welcoming food that is healthy and easy to prepare. • Create an atmosphere that says to your guests, “You are special.” • Make hospitality your ministry and service. Learn what makes Barbara Smith’s meals and outreach so rave-worthy and discover how you can invoke the same spirit of hospitality in your own home and kitchen.
Michael W. Smith is a legend in the music business. But growing up, he was just "Smitty" who loved his mom's cooking. Now some of her best recipes have been gathered in this collector's cookbook. A professional caterer for 15 years, Mrs. Smith offers up a huge helping of family memories, community celebrations, and fabulous dishes. This celebration of love from the kitchen includes more than 40 pictures and 300 recipes, with an easy-to-use lay-flat design. Whether you're catering for five or 50, you'll discover down-home recipes that will have everyone asking for more.
Television lifestyle expert B. Smith shares her passion and ideas for entertaining, cooking, and crafts in this fabulous twelve-month celebration of holidays and rituals. As a restaurateur, TV host, columnist, and former model, B. Smith lets us in on the tricks of entertaining with flair and personal style. The first in a series, Rituals & Celebrations is organized by calendar month, each including two or three celebrations and containing a history of the ritual, full-course recipes, party ideas, and step-by-step craft instructions. In addition to such basic celebrations as a wine tasting at home, a Labor Day picnic on the beach, and a New Year's Eve pajama party for kids, Rituals & Celebrations also incorporates such African American traditions as a Juneteenth celebration and a bid whist card party. The book also includes some wonderful variations on traditional holidays, such as a hot pink Valentine's Day, a Thanksgiving featuring Jerked Roast Turkey, and Christmas Eve spent dipping into fondue. Shrimp Dumplings with Ginger Soy Sauce, Candied Glazed Pork Tenderloin with Sweet Potato Stuffing, and Triple Chocolate Torte are just a few of the other mouthwatering recipes included. Craft ideas include putting together the perfect houseguest thank-you basket and creating beautiful personalized hand-painted glassware. B. Smith brings these celebrations into your home and helps you make them your own. Filled with beautiful full-color photographs, B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations completes any home and makes a great gift all year long. B. Smith gives us twelve months of menus, recipes, crafts, and party ideas that help us celebrate with style
In October of 1968, an eighteen-year-old girl was on her way to work in Watts, California, when she was struck by a Southern Pacific train as she crossed an intersection. After the train dragged her body thirty feet, amputated her right leg, and severed her left thumb, the teenager called out for Jesus and promised that, if allowed to live, she would be a witness for Him. That teenage girl would eventually become Barbara Ann Smith-Hookfin-Franklin-Stephen-Sterrett. Sharing the story of her life, Barbara describes how she faced life's greatest challenges head-on as she learned how to be a disabled mother, created a center for the handicapped, traveled to Japan to sing in a concert, and graduated from college with honors. As she details how she somehow managed to survive two subsequent strokes, live through Hurricane Katrina, and handle a divorce, Barbara illustrates how she persevered through each challenge by putting one foot in front of the other and always believing God would show her the way. Through poems and anecdotes, Follow Your Vision and Never Give Up! recalls one woman's journey through life as she keeps a promise to God and achieves much more than she ever imagined.
Boomerang Living is a recipe book that could change your life. In 1999 Barbara Smith and her husband escaped a house fire in the middle of the night with their eight children. Their ninth child was born 14 days later. This is their story.
Empowering Pathways is a unique guidebook that outlines a holistic faith based approach to congregational health and wellness. The book provides interventional strategies, helpful tools, and techniques that are designed to assist Christian churches with practical methods to establish or transform a congregational health and wellness ministry. A ten step process for establishing a ministry, the composition and characteristics of the wellness team, and the strategic planning process is presented with graphic illustrations and examples. Other relevant health data on many chronic diseases is provided in an easy to follow format. Detailed guidelines on acquiring knowledge of health-care support services that are designed to prevent, detect, and treat illness are included. Also, the book is a useful personal health reference guide for parishioner and their families in pursuing advocacy, empowerment, and support for one another. Strategies and methods to take control of your health while making appropriate lifestyle changes are discussed. The book discusses the importance of preparing for health care visits and the advantages of forming a partnership with your health-care. Other practical information to optimize your health experience is outlined. Empowering Pathways emphasizes that preserving our health and faith are high priorities. As Christians, we often concentrate on our spiritual needs and neglect the condition of our mind and body. It is important to acknowledge Gods concern for the whole being of the Christian. God desires us to be strong in mind, body, and spirit; therefore, protecting and preserving our health and well-being is an act of appreciation to Him. The Christian church plays a significant role in connection our faith, health, and engagement. This book is a helpful and concise reference guidebook that will inspire and encourage Christians individually and collectively. The author has used her knowledge of congregational health and wellness and other ministry responses to reflect on the love Jesus demonstrated in His ministry of healing.
The lessons in this book are to equip the saints on how to have a deeper and more precise understanding of the role of the Holy Spirit in their life. God told King Jehoshaphat that the battle was not his it was the Lord's, and our Father is declaring the same statement to us through the Holy Spirit. We can and we will overtake every battle that comes our way through the wisdom and power of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.Each section of this book is a step by step approach to who the Holy Spirit is to us and the Kingdom of God.
BARBARA DRUCKER SMITH PROSE FROM THE OLD CENTURY TO THE NEW Vignettes, Petite Petites, Epistles, Points of View Prose From The Old Century To The New will bring laughter, tears, and points of view on past and current issues of personal, local, regional, national and international happenings In this collection of letters, vignettes, and other short pieces, Virginia poet and writer Barbara Drucker Smith has put together an insightful picture of life in her times, which readers will find engaging and rewarding. Nickell John Romjue, author of novel Merry Town, Missouri 1945 1948: Barbara Smith's eclectic collection gives us a look at her multifaceted world. We see travel adventures some unplanned humor and insight from daily living, her views on local controversies and some answers. L. Nelson Farley, poet, and author of A Search for God Paraphrased Some of us walk through life staring up at the sky or down at our feet. Barbara Smith, always alert to her surroundings, illuminates the ending of a century and the beginning of the next. Doris Gwaltney author of Homefront (available soon), Shakespeare's Sister, and Duncan Browdie,Gent. Barbara Drucker Smith is a veteran anthologized poet, fiction and non-fiction writer local, regional and national. She authored Darling Loraine, the Story of A. Louis Drucker, A Grateful Jewish Immigrant, and A Poetic Journey. She is a certified hypnotherapist, professionally certified teacher of English, Journalism, Speech, and Remedial Reading. She is a pianist, choral singer, actress, and world traveller.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a “humorous or malicious deception,” and hex as “a magic spell.” In Hoaxes and Hexes, Barbara Smith explores these intriguing reflections of human nature, showing our curious desire to believe in the impossible and explain the inexplicable. Here are tales of swindlers, charlatans and imposters, among them the flamboyant 19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon-Gordon; David Walsh, author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a homemade submarine. The persistent power of hexes is recorded in stories of cursed places— including a strange haunting in the Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse—and weird coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning actresses. Whether you believe in the power of hoaxes or hexes or not, these bizarre stories show them to be a fascinating part of our history.
Located in the heart of Appalachia, rural Barbour County is bound on the east by the Allegheny Mountains, and on the west by the rolling hills that lead to the Ohio River. The Tygart River and its tributaries flow to the north through Barbour County, and historic maps identify the county as "the Western Waters." Once a trackless forest used as hunting grounds by Native Americans, the county was permanently settled in the late 1700s and officially named in 1843 for Philip Pendleton Barbour, a philanthropist and member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Known also for its focus on health care, the county may best be known as the site of the first land battle of the Civil War in 1861 and for the double-barreled bridge that played a role in that event. Over the years, the hardy members of this region have carved their living out of the mountains--mining and timber have helped sustain the county's communities. Recorded for generations to come in documents and other visual memorabilia, the singular history of Barbour County abounds with individual stories of industry, courage, determination, and faith.
The stories, folklore and legends in this book are based on the author's collection of sources including individuals whose experiences have led them to believe they have encountered phenomena of some kind or another. They are meant to entertain, and neither the publisher nor the author claims these stories represent fact.
Enjoy this spooky romp through a world of restless spirits, from the ghost who warns hikers in the Cascades about a dangerous path, to the phantoms that roam the Seattle Underground. You'll read a fascinating account about a man wrongly lynched near Rockford. He swears revenge on the drunken vigilantes who strung him up--and they each die screaming. Another story tells of the spirits that ring the bells in the tower of Tacoma's Old City Hall--even after the bells have been made unusable.
A Life of Tears is the story of Rosie, a young girl who lives in a coal camp with her mother, father, and many brothers and sisters. Because they are poor, her parents decide that she must marry a young friend of her father's to ease the burden at home. Rosie is twelve years old and the man is nineteen years old. She is afraid and does not want to leave her family but after a short courtship, they are married and within a few months she is pregnant. Gradually, Rosie falls in love with her husband, Willie, and they begin to build a good life for themselves and their growing family. But tragedy strikes and Rosie begins a life of heartbreak as she quests for the one thing that seems to be just out of reach, love. A Life of Tears is the story of a young girl who must become a woman very early in life. It chronicles her struggles to hold her family together through the many adversities that come into her life. As she desperately tries to bring her family out of a life of poverty, she begins to understand what she must do to survive.
Barbara J. Smith is the eldest of eight children of who all have a great sense of humor. She was born in Mobile. Alabama to Jellene and the late James Norwood Sr. Barbara graduated high school in 1967, and came to New York to work for the summer and never went back to Alabama to live. She married Jeffrey E. Smith in 1973 and they have one son Jeffrey Jr. and 1 grandson Jeffrey III. She attended Monroe Business Inst., while working during the day at New York Telephone Co. She is a graduate of the Manhattan Bible Inst. /Narrow way Bible Inst., and has a Bachelor in Religious Education. She has twice retired, once after 24yr from NY Tel, and also 10yrs from NY State DMV. Mrs. Smith says she inherited her sense of humor for her father. She began to write plays for Narrow Way Bible School for different school occasion. This book consists of most of those plays that will make you laugh, but with a meaning of life lived incidents that one can relate to. We all have some characters in our family or someone we know that bring a smile to our face. I believe laughter is a merry medicine and a supernatural healing for the soul. You will be able to use these plays for your social gathering on many occasions. When you laugh you change the atmosphere. Barbara is known to make people laugh everywhere her daily life takes her. Her husband Jeff has helped her on many occasions with props for her plays. When she writes a plays she begins to look for props and for those who will portray the characters in the play. She acts in most of her plays. Barbara writes plays for the fun of it. When you read this book, you will surely relate to some of its characters.
From Ashes to Glory discusses the aftermath of rape and how it affects every area of a victim's life by examining the life of Tamar, daughter of King David. Join author Barbara Smith as she provides a conversational text exploring the medical and biblical perspectives of rape and recovery, taking audiences to hope from hopelessness and reminding us that abundant life as a survivor is available through Christ.
Prayer: A Guide to a Deeper Relationship with God" is a comprehensive guide to the art of prayer. This book provides a clear understanding of the power of prayer, and how to develop a heart that longs for a deeper relationship with God. The reader will learn how to make prayer a habit, and the importance of listening in prayer. This book delves into the role of faith, and how to overcome obstacles to prayer. The benefits of group prayer and the practice of intercession are also explored. The power of persistent prayer, discovering God's will through prayer, and the benefits of quiet time with God are key topics covered in this guide. This book also addresses the practice of praying for others, and for one's own life and future. Trusting God's timing in answered prayers and the beauty of adoration in prayer are other important aspects of this book. The reader will learn about fostering a heart of gratitude through prayer, and the importance of praying for strength and endurance. The ultimate goal of prayer is intimacy with God, and this guide will show how to cultivate a heart of humility through prayer, and the benefits of fasting and prayer. The role of confession, peace of mind, and praying for forgiveness and healing are also discussed. The beauty of blessing in prayer, and the importance of blessing others is a key part of this guide. The joy of singing praises to God, and the freedom of worship in prayer, as well as learning to pray through suffering are other important aspects of this book. "Prayer: A Guide to a Deeper Relationship with God" is a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their spiritual connection with God through prayer.
When his dueling opponent--the beautiful Anne Neville in disguise--is shot from nowhere, Lord Joshua Kenyon wonders who would want to kill her. Fearing the answer lies in his own scandalous past, Joshua vows to find the truth. Anne despises the seductively roguish Joshua. Yet with her life at stake, she must join him and enter society to unmask the culprit.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-changing guide to finding your direction—and your passion—in a world of seemingly limitless options “For those who want to find their passion . . . a step-by-step guide for restructuring one’s life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.”—Ellen Kreidman, author of Light His Fire and Light Her Fire If you suspect there could be more to life than what you’re getting, if you always knew you could do anything—if you only knew what it was—this extraordinary book is about to prove you right. No matter what your age, no matter how “unattainable” your dreams, you can create and live a life you love. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was reveals how you can recapture “long lost” goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams forever. You will learn: • What to do if you never chose to be what you are. • How to get off the fast track—and on to the right track. • First aid techniques for paralyzing chronic negativity. • How to regroup when you've lost your big dream. • To stop waiting for luck—and start creating it. A life without direction is a life without passion. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was guides you not to another unsatisfying job but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart’s desire.
In an era of rapidly growing technology, there is a concern that the power and importance of fantasy and magic may be lost. But when Barbara’s two pre-school grandchildren first arrived at the family’s summer cottage, they discovered an old stump in the garden and quickly named it “The Fairy Chair.” The result was that a magical communication was born which lasted throughout their childhood and created memories for a lifetime. FAIRIES + GOBLINS = MAGIC provides a charming template for grandparents, or any loving relative to enchant, emotionally support, entertain, and educate children through magical communication with the fairies and the goblins. From examples of Barbara Smith’s own “fairy-written” stories, to wise and practical suggestions on how to engage with young children, this book offers an opportunity to create an occasional alternative to technology and to embrace a magical and special communication between children and adults.
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