The Coming Day: A True Christmas Story from China

By Alice Burnett Poynor and Jean H. Berry

It was a very cold winter in northwest China when a little beggar girl who could neither hear nor speak followed a rag-tag line of children into a large white tent. She fixed her eyes on the woman who was speaking and the bright colored pictures she showed. Gwa-gwa, whose name means Little Lonely could not know that one of those pictures was to change her life.

Gwa-gwa is a real person; the missionaries are real, as are many of the details of the story. When at last she comes to a real home on Christmas Day, a day she afterward called her coming day, Gwa-gwa found some answers to the questions she couldnt even ask. What did the picture mean? Who was the Baby? And what did it have to do with her?

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449750275

Alice Burnett Poynor

Serving as a missionary in Asia fed Alice Poynor’s long-standing passion for missionary stories, especially those from China. Besides writing for young readers, Alice enjoys writing Bible studies, teaching Bible, hiking, and playing Scrabble. She and her husband live in Columbia South Carolina. They have three sons and two grandsons.

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