For those unfamiliar with how the Trust came to be established, Edwin and I are offering copies of our book at a reduced price. Christmas break gives the opportunity for some reading time or for gifting a book.
Our memoir is available for AUD $22 plus postage (approx. $10). Please email us at egstrust2@gmail.com if you are interested.
Some reviews of ‘The Elm Grove Story’ ISBN 978-1-922722-55-3
By Billie Krstovic for the Journal of the Alister Hardy Trust ‘De Numine’.
(The Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre is at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Lampeter)
“Here is a powerful story of a couple’s life journey completely guided by fate. This is a story of uncanny events, unexpected synchronicities, incredible guidance and heavy tests.
As they embark on the journey of a lifetime, taking their whole family with them, a married couple sought to create a safe haven for many others. From selling their house to picking the town to start this creation in, they only ever do it with the guidance of God.
Never have I read such a gripping fast-paced spiritual journey. While trying hard not to let the cat out of the bag, I would say read this one when you are not planning to have time to put it down!”
Angela Young shared this message -“I walked into the pastoral care team meeting at the hospital today, and my friend Judy came over to me, so full of enthusiasm, as she had recently finished reading yours and Ed’s book. I had given it to her at the beginning of September. She was very impressed by your life journey and loved the whole spiritual approach so much that she told her daughter who is a teacher of religious education in a Catholic school. Her daughter immediately ordered one of your books. Judy is asking me where she can get more copies of your book to pass around as she’d love to give them to people.”
Jonathon McKeown from Sydney thought it an ‘extraordinary’ read – ‘This is a truly amazing story of how God chose two unsuspecting people out of the blue, and of how they responded to that call in faith. From the very first pages the incredible way God revealed himself and his purpose for Edwin and Laurel compels the reader to keep turning page after page in eager expectation.
Even the most sceptical readers will be given grounds to doubt their disbelief. The whole story is told in a tone of deep humility and gratitude though, which for me sets it apart and makes it a truly inspiring and encouraging testimony about what it means to trust God one day, one step at a time. It has challenged me to trust that I will be given exactly what I need at every moment, in every circumstance I find myself, if only I am open to that grace that is only invisible to me because I am a finite creature that cannot grasp with my limited mind the infinite grace of God that is unfolded to us in time, or at least in a lifetime.
Laurel and Ed have honoured their God in this testimony of how that grace unfolded for them in their own lives which was a long journey of faith that became their life’s work. Definitely worth reading. It may even change your life!’