We’ve just welcomed a new author, Trevor Clowers, to the True Potential publishing family. Trevor’s new book is titled Spiritual Health: Overcoming Twelve Handicaps to Holiness.
Trevor and his wife, Miriam, are the children of missionaries. Trevor grew up on the mission field in the Caribbean and Latin America, and Miriam grew up in London, where her parents served as missionaries. Today, Trevor’s and Miriam’s mission field is Wales. They minister to families with exceptional-needs children through the International Pentecostal Holiness Church’s Eli (Every Life’s Important ) Project.
I want you to know about Trevor’s book and encourage you to purchase a few copies, but that’s not really why I’m writing. Please keep reading to understand the true value of Trevor’s book and books like it.
I’ve always believed that a book can be much more than a book. What I mean by this is that it’s way too common for authors, and even publishers, to see their books as a “product.” You publish it, you print it, and you try to sell it for fifteen bucks. If you’re lucky, you sell enough copies to break even, or if things really go well, you sell enough copies to make a few dollars on your investment.
Sure, that is how this paper and ink package we call a book makes its way through the world. But that’s not really the point of a book. You may be surprised to learn that when people purchase your book, they aren’t really buying the book; they’re buying the promise your book makes. And when your promise has the power to change lives, the value of a book becomes much, much more than a fifteen-dollar package of pages and ink.
Let’s go back to Trevor’s book—Spiritual Health: Overcoming Twelve Handicaps to Holiness, isn’t about his life as a missionary. It is the same gospel he lives and shares every day on the mission field. Spiritual Health tells the story of God’s transformational love in healing those who are broken, hurt, and sick from sin and the world’s wicked influence. This message of vulnerability, healing, and spiritual health is the good news he models and shares with those families he and Miriam minister to in Wales. Spiritual Health is a guide and a workbook for healing, redemption, and holiness. Spiritually, it’s a life-saving device. It’s his mission in book form.
But books travel. They have the power to go beyond the geography of any personal mission field, ministry, or church. Trevor’s book will travel the world, reaching hurting people and touching lives that Trevor and Miriam may never know or meet personally. This book allows their mission field to become the world.
At home, their book serves another profound purpose. Spiritual Health is a ministry and touchstone for the families and organizations that support Trevor and Miriam’s mission abroad. The book reminds these families that they participate in the eternally important work these missionaries carry out abroad. It is also a reminder to pray for them as they serve abroad and a resource to share their message of healing with friends here at home whose lives may be hurting and broken.
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Trevor’s book is more than a book. The message inside is far more powerful than a fifteen-dollar package of pages and ink. Trevor’s book and books like it are the reason True Potential publishes. They are the reason for our mission; “reach the world.”
If you’ve ever considered putting your message for the world into a book and want to explore how valuable that book could truly be, I’d love to discuss it; and maybe even play a part in bringing it to life.