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Thur». Februory I I . I W (S*c I) SANOY (O r*.) P O S T 3 inside the church 20-year project leads to publication of first book by DAN DILLON It takes a strong commitment to stay with a project for 20 years, particularly when the last 10 years are spent listening to people tell you no .' But for a Boring woman, the commitment paid off and late last year Catherine Fox saw the book she had worked on for nearly two decades, w riting and looking for a publisher, finally get into print 'What A Year May Bring Forth” tells of the year the Fox fam ily spent as missionaries in Brazil It isn't an average missionary story either, according to Mrs Fox “ It's not the usual missionary story.” she said. " It's kind of controversial ” Because of its controversy, some publishers shied away from the book, fearing it might discourage poten tial missionaries from going out into the field However, one publisher. Mark Maxey, himself a cur rent missionary in Japan, disagreed with those other publishers And last year published it through his California company. Go Ye Books He explained his decision in the foreward to "What A Year May Bring Forth ” It was almost 10 years after Catherine, her husband Ken. and their three sons, Norman. Gary and Vern, who was born in Brazil, returned that she began w riting " I'm not a w rite r," she said " I just got a real strong urge that I wanted to get this down on paper ” "When it comes to missionary biographies, success is the key to being printed and read. . . Unfortunately not all stones have happy endings,” he wrote “ Lifetim e missionaries are few. ten-year missionaries are some, but one-term and less missionaries are many. During the day she is an administrative aide working with handicapped children at North Powellhurst Grade School in the David Douglas School D istrict. She is now busy on another project, however With "What A Year May Bring F orth” in print, Mrs. Fox is at work on a biography of her youngest son, Vern, who died shortly before his 21st birthday. "The latter group suffer the most. Because of having failed' before they got started they never have a chance to redeem themselves on the mission field. One publishing company told ner she had a "negative attitude towards missions ” But that isn’t so, she said “ I don't have a negative attitude towards missions ” " I t is an eternal verity that we learn more from our failures than our successes. In that sense, we have much to learn from Catherine Fox's book,” he conclud ed. Ironically, Mrs Fox said, the publishing company that deemed her book "negative” publishes a magazine with a column written by Maxey That w ill be one of the vehicles used to market the book when he reviews it in a future issue. Because the Fox fam ily stayed just a year in Brazil, some might have viewed their mission as failed, caus ing other publishers who want only "success stones" to stay away from the book The book is "a day-to-day story of what the life was like,” said Mrs. Fox, " I t wasn't hard to put together. Each chapter is a month and I kept a diary. I never could have done it if I didn’t have that.” “ It's kind of a story of a failure.” Mrs Fox said Series on cults set Understanding religious cults and sects as the “ un paid debts of historic Chris tia n ity” w ill be the focus of a public lecture and discus sion series beginning at 7 p m this Tuesday, Feb 16, at C o m m u n ity Presbyterian Church in Sandy. 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