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“St. Thomas Church: How We All Have Fallen Short” by Da Me is now available for purchase 

“They responded, “Well, I would like to see you become the man, I know you can be.”  Jason snapped, “You mean you are sorry for me because I don’t have a dad!” The man  tried  to  reassure  Jason  that this was not the case, by saying, “No Jason!  I believe and so does everyone else here, who has been trying to take you under their wing, you can become a great man.”

– an excerpt from book

Author Reputation Press is honored to release “St. Thomas Church: How We All Have Fallen Short” by Da Me. This masterpiece is not a true story, but it is a book about truth. St. Thomas Church has a lot of dirty laundries to hang out to dry, as do we, and we shall hang theirs for all to see. The book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.

Jon Sumner was born in Flint, MI. He has a passion to see the Church as healthy as God’s hands, feet, and mouth to our world; this was the inspiration for “St. Thomas Church: How We All Have Fallen Short,” his first book.

Jon has a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministries from Spring Arbor University. He has been involved with several ministries, including The Salvation Army in Flint, MI, and Set-Free (a church whose focus is outreach to the homeless) in Los Angeles, CA. As well, he has been a part of several church plants, such as Wild Wind Community Church in Grand Blanc, MI (later moved to Flint TWP) and Christ Vineyard Church (later to be renamed Hope Vineyard Church) in Owosso, MI.

Jon is the writer of over forty poems that can be seen at www.thestarlitecafe.com. He has also written several short stories and skits.

This book tells the story of Pastor Steve Palmer and his church in the small Northwest Michigan town of Hartlin. They face many of the same challenges that we all do, to become the people God has called them and us to become. “St. Thomas Church: How We All Have Fallen Short” is both fiction and non-fiction. Because the characters and settings in this book are entirely fictitious, the message of these parables applies to all of us at some point in our lives.

This novel can best be called a pre-church growth book. It does not offer strategies to grow your church but is meant to be used as a mirror in personal devotions and as a small group study to ask where I or we are in relation to where we ought to be.

This book does not promote an “anything goes” mentality but instead promotes being God’s hands, feet, and mouth to the world outside our doors not just on Sunday but every second of every day, of every moment. This book does this by telling several short stories and then asking questions that are meant to promote discussion and hopefully action (and, if needed, change). Now go forth and change your world.

“St. Thomas Church: How We All Have Fallen Short” by Da Me is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/st-thomas-church.

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