When I was eight years old, my parents packed up and moved my two brothers, my sister, and myself to Indiana. There at our church we met a sweet young couple – still in their early twenties – with their children Isaac and Anna. Estera, (isn’t that a gorgeous name?!), would be born right before we moved back to California. Fast forward to now, Josh and Sarah have been living lives of adventure and are currently residing in beautiful Hawaii with 14 of their 15 children. The then three-year-old that we knew in Indiana is now married and living in Europe. The one time two-year-old is now working on turning her musical that she wrote about the life of Christ (wrote it while a teenager!) into a full-blown play.

Sarah is a wife and mom. She’s also a missionary, curriculum writer, entrepreneur, artist, author, and more. She’s a child of God who wants to live for Him.

Maybe you would like an inside peek into Sarah’s life as a child, youth, wife, mother, and all the rest? Good! Because Sarah wrote it down for you. I loved reading this autobiography of a girl who grew up in Indiana, California, and Florida, and of her availability to serve God and the unique opportunities He gave her, her meeting and falling in love with her now husband Josh, and the adventures they’ve been on together since then.

I hope you enjoy this book and are as inspired by Sarah’s life as I have been.

If you get this book, you’ll enjoy jumping onto Sarah’s Instagram where you’ll see the continued growth of her family since this book was published. Sarah, please write and publish part 2 to your story! 🙂

 

-Annie

 

“My story did not begin on the day I was born… mine is a story that actually began many generations ago with the uncommon bravery of my grandmothers who came to America from many lands… these ancestors of mine were immigrants, like I am now, strangers in a new land… We left the American Dream behind, living a new dream because we are Americans, free to live by faith, to show our children what exists on the other side of the world. I brought just a few things with me, mostly books – the journals I have filled with the stories from my own life. For me these are the windows to my past.

“Now I have a pen in my hand, and I’m letting go of my story. I am tempted to hold onto my memories and keep secrets of my journey locked up in my heart, my love letters, and journals. But what good is a story unless it is told? So for you, for my children, and for their children, I am passing along a few pages of my life.

“I hope you enjoy this part of my story as much as I have enjoyed the journey. Now let me open a window…” -Sarah Janisse Brown (pages 12 and 13)