Connie Lounsbury
The Lutsen Evangelical Lutheran Church reminds residents to mark their calendars to come listen to 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 is an award-winning author who is looking forward to speaking to attendees about the writing process. Lounsbury recently spoke with the Cook County News-Herald about coming to “our favorite place to travel.”
Lounsbury said she has spent monthlong writer retreats in Lutsen and just this July spent a week on the North Shore as her husband took a class on building an outdoor wood-burning oven at North House Folk School.
“I’m looking forward to my speaking engagement in your lovely part of the world,” she said.
Lounsbury 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. A collaboration like that—the telling of someone else’s story—can be difficult, said Lounsbury and she looks forward to explaining that process, as well as talking about her latest work 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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