Go as a Way Opens

By Merlin Leroy Schwanz and Keith Duane Schwanz

Go as a Way Opens is the memoir of a man who constructed more than 250 buildings in eleven countries, from a hospital in Dessalines, Haiti, to the first church building in Ng'rong, Kenya, to a seminary library in Bangarapet, India. The construction projects, however, were just the venue for something greater. For Swanee Schwanz, life's ultimate work involved caring for and empowering people who suffered. Through story, you will walk with a teenager whose face was disfigured by cancer and stand with a mother of four when she learned she had AIDS. You will see young men begin to work with Swanee as laborers and leave equipped to be contractors. You will go to hospitals and clinics in Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, and Swaziland to see how a carpenter can increase the capacity of healthcare professionals to respond to medical needs. You will stand face to face with a man who raped a twelve-year-old girl as an advocate for those who suffer. You will marvel at the hospitality that welcomes Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians at a fifty-fourth birthday party. You will be inspired when you watch a Ugandan man graciously care for a neighbor dying of AIDS, the same woman who poisoned his wife.The best stories will cause you to look away from the page, even for a moment, so you can reflect on the implications of what you just read. The prophet Micah urged people to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. This memoir shows what the prophet's vision looks like in the life of a man willing to Go as a Way Opens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940402069
• ISBN13: 9781940402062
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Storian Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"