As with all of our giveaways, this is only open to those with a USA mailing address.
We were picked on and criticized for the way we looked by some church members. On one occasion back east a preacher cancelled our revival two days before we were to start because one of his members told him that he saw us looking worldly. Marble had a scarf around her neck tied in a pretty flower bow. The man said it was a choker and that was frowned upon in the UPC church. …Another minister cancelled us because my hair ‘looked cut.’ My hair had never been even trimmed. Another church cancelled us because Jerry’s hair was real curly. It seemed everywhere we turned, we were giving our all for something that was giving us nothing in return. – Margaret Toedy Duke
This is your chance to receive a new copy of Let’s Go to California: The Story of the Singing Holley Family by Margaret Toedy Duke. One copy will be given away. The book was released in May 2019 and is another memoir that deals in part with the United Pentecostal Church. Available only in paperback, it is just over 100 pages and sells for under $4.00. Earlier this year we were able to give away three copies of the first UPCI related memoir from 2019, The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid by Ronna Russell. There is a vast difference between the quality of these two books, with Ronna’s being by far the best.
This giveaway is a drawing and not a first come, first served giveaway. To enter, just leave a comment to show you wish to be included. The drawing will close on Saturday August 24 at 8pm (eastern time), after which I will draw the winner. You will then need to email me your mailing address if I do not already have it. There is absolutely no cost to enter. Don’t be alarmed if your comment does not immediately show as they require approval when you are commenting for the first time.
We always provide these at no charge to our readers. A copy of this book was previously given away in our support group on Facebook. If anyone would like to help with the expenses involved in providing various spiritual abuse related material to people, you may do so via our Fundraiser at GoFundMe.
I would like to be entered in the drawing I was in a UPC church in Modesto California. If a certain standard was out of place you were shamed in front of your friends as going in my late teens and 20,s
Raymond, you are the winner! Congratulations!
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