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The Tenney Quilt

Celebrating the Women of Minnesota's Tiniest Town

By: Heidi Haagenson

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The Tenney Quilt

Celebrating the Women of Minnesota's Tiniest Town

By: Heidi Haagenson

The Tenney Quilt is a tender and enlightening rendering of small-town life of the 1928 Midwestern woman. Haagenson pieces together this deeply personal account of the men and women of Tenney around an heirloom quilt with a history of its own. In 1928, Tenney's Town Hall sought funds for a cook stove in order to accommodate the social events and gathering of the town's residents. Several women initiated a project to raise the money: a signature quilt would be made, ten cents collected for each signature and piece of quilt added to the whole. What ensued was a gathering together of 530 people, their lives, their values, and a preservation of these documented in a hand-crafted chronicle of Tenney history. Haagenson uses the quilt to highlight the disparate lives of German, Scottish, and Norwegian immigrants working as school teachers, storekeepers, homemakers, nurses, factory workers, and seamstresses and how they come together to share their time and talents for their community. Chapter by chapter, thoughtful commentary on the limitations placed on these women due to time and place is interspersed between accounts of the women's honest and willful commitment to their families and each other. Schoolyard reminiscings, familiar rituals of church socials, and exciting historical "firsts" offer light to the hardships of daily life in home and vocation. The Tenney Quilt is a warm and engaging read, a snapshot of the smallest Minnesota town illustrating both where we have come from and how far we have come.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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ISBN 10

1934248673

ISBN 13

9781934248676

Lessons Learned in Jamaica: Short-Term Missions in the Children's Homes of Jamaica

By: Heidi Haagenson

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Lessons Learned in Jamaica: Short-Term Missions in the Children's Homes of Jamaica

By: Heidi Haagenson

Lessons Learned in Jamaica is not only a captivating collection of stories about the children Heidi Haagenson has met and the situations she has faced in her many years of short-term mission work, but also serves as an excellent resource for individuals, groups, or churches considering getting involved in short-term missions. Written in a warm, informal style, readers will feel as though they are involved in a friendly coffee house chat with the author, as she describes how her experiences in Jamaica have taught or reinforced important life lessons. Each chapter focuses on a lesson learned from the children of Jamaica, her fellow mission teammates, and friends met in the churches, towns, homes, shops, and streets of Jamaica. Her personal experiences are woven together with Jamaican culture, history, and folklore to create a unique, inside look at the people of Jamaica. Using a delightful combination of humor and compassion, Haagenson recounts both the happy and the sad realities of the lives of Jamaican children under State care. Her knowledge is gained through the experience of living and working directly in one of those children's homes on a short-term basis each year. A must-read for anyone who is interested in learning not only about short-term mission work, but also about the ebbs and flows of the daily lives of Jamaica's most vulnerable.

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Outskirts Press

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1977248888

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9781977248886

The Tenney Quilt

Celebrating the Women of Minnesota's Tiniest Town

By: Heidi Haagenson

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The Tenney Quilt

Celebrating the Women of Minnesota's Tiniest Town

By: Heidi Haagenson

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1934248673

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9781934248676

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The Tenney Quilt

The Tenney Quilt

Lessons Learned in Jamaica: Short-Term Missions in the Children's Homes of Jamaica

Lessons Learned in Jamaica: Short-Term Missions in the Children's Homes of Jamaica

The Tenney Quilt

The Tenney Quilt

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