Cook County News Herald

Inspirational author to speak at Lutsen Lutheran Church




The Lutsen Evangelical Lutheran Church is hosting inspirational speaker and author Connie Lounsbury as she shares How God Speaks to Ordinary People on Friday, September 7 from 2 – 4 p.m.

Lounsbury has received several prestigious writing awards, including the 1998 Guideposts Writers Contest and a first place award in the inspirational category of the 2001 Writer’s Digest writing competition.

She has written several books. Reaching Past The Wire, A Nurse at Abu Ghraib was written in collaboration with Deanna Germain, an Army Reserve nurse. This 2007 book published by Borealis Books was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award.

Lounsbury published Thrift Store Shoes in 2012, which reviewers describe as a memoir that encourages a closer relationship with God. She is working on her fifth book, Eyes of Hope: Caring for Orphans and Widows in Africa.

Lutsen Lutheran Church will serve refreshments and invites people from all churches as well as those without a church home to join them for Lounsbury’s talk.



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