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    Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)
    Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)
    Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)
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    Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)

    By Vanessa Carvo

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    Facing The Storm Along The Oregon Trail, is about a young Amish brother and sister who are excommunicated from their community because she wishes to spread the word of God outside of and within their community, and this is forbidden, so they decide to journey west along the Oregon Trail and join their aunt in Oregon, who had been previously excommunicated for her way of thinking, also. So he can protect his sister, the brother tells everyone that they are married, and this works for them until he gets injured. A young man becomes their driver and the trio is made stronger by the faith of the siblings, plus the renewed faith of the young man. Nature and man often have ways of testing faith and the three meet the challenges head on, with God to leave the pathway clear.

    Emily Seeks Out The Traveling Preacher, is the emotional story of a Southern woman, right before the Civil War, who is determined to find a childhood sweetheart in a traveling preacher. When he told her that his life was being an evangelist and that traveling across the country wasn’t exactly a good life for a Southern lady, she told him that she wanted to join him in his ministry as she had attended school and learned all about preaching. That didn’t suit him and he returned to Colorado. Even though sick, she began her travels to find and then marry him, by stagecoach, train, then eventually via wagon train along the Oregon Trail, accompanied only by a freed slave.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateFeb 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310472541
    Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)

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      Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas) - Vanessa Carvo

      Christian Adventures Along The Oregon Trail (A Pair of Historical Novellas)

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      Vanessa Carvo

      Copyright 2015 Vanessa Carvo

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      Facing The Storm Along The Oregon Trail

      Emily Seeks Out The Traveling Preacher

      Facing The Storm Along The Oregon Trail

      Synopsis: Facing The Storm Along The Oregon Trail, is about a young Amish brother and sister who are excommunicated from their community because she wishes to spread the word of God outside of and within their community, and this is forbidden, so they decide to journey west along the Oregon Trail and join their aunt in Oregon, who had been previously excommunicated for her way of thinking, also. So he can protect his sister, the brother tells everyone that they are married, and this works for them until he gets injured. A young man becomes their driver and the trio is made stronger by the faith of the siblings, plus the renewed faith of the young man. Nature and man often have ways of testing faith and the three meet the challenges head on, with God to leave the pathway clear.

      In the sweet early hours of an April morning, Benjamin and Emily Whetstone gathered their belongings, packed their buggy and set out for St. Jo, Missouri. At nineteen and fifteen years old, they were about to take an adventure of the unknown.

      Losing their Amish parents to a drowning accident, they longed for family. They would travel from Elkhart, Indiana by buggy, cross a river by ferry and enter St. Jo, Missouri. There they would take the money their parents had left behind and trade their horse and buggy for an oxen team and wagon.

      Staying in the Amish community they grew up in was no longer an option. Not feeling any connections, their late mother’s desire became their passion. Their mother had longed to

      reconnect with her sister and family who had been excommunicated years before for the imple fact of wanting to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ outside the Amish faith.

      This was against the Amish rules and their Aunt’s desires brought on the fact of them being excommunicated. The Aunt was forced to leave and she resettled out in Oregon, the land of new opportunity.

      Benjamin and Emily made the choice to leave all they ever knew to fulfill their mother’s wishes. It would be a trying journey filled with sweet and tender moments, as well as extreme hardships and it would try their faith to the utmost.

      With news of so many people leaving for Oregon, they decided to seek refuge with strangers on the trail, as they hold onto their gleaming hope and their love for Jesus Christ. With much to ponder, mostly of the unknown, they made a decision to pretend that they are husband and wife instead of brother and sister, in hopes that this would bring more protection to Emily.

      So, as Abram and Sari in the Old Testament took on the charade of being a married couple, so did Benjamin and Emily. When the sun hit the skies that morning, they slowly pulled away without the blessings from those they had known all their lives, leaving their names scratched out by the Amish community as a lesson to others they left behind.

      Now, alone with only each other, they too were excommunicated and what remains is their strong faith and determination. Leaving a dusty trail behind, they each took one last glance as they pass by their old familiar family farm and yet a smile spreads across their faces.

      Well Emily, we’re off and I do believe there is no turning back now, but the Lord will provide, do you believe so, Emily?

      Oh yes Benjamin, I do believe that He will provide for us and shall deliver us to Oregon safe and sound.

      In addition, taking his hand in hers, she smiled as they passed farm after farm, until they finally saw no family farms anymore. As they settled into their thoughts, they found themselves strong, happy and determined, despite all the warnings the congregation had given them.

      It was April of 1852 and the day was young while their spirits were high.

      Arriving in St. Jo, Missouri their eyes were opened wide to the enormous amount of wagons all lined up for the train. For as far back as they could see, they could not identify any other Amish, which made them a bit nervous, but they took the attitude that they must be two of the brave ones and they pulled up in line. Here, they would purchase any supplies they needed to have and this is where they traded in their horse and buggy for a team of oxen and a wagon.

      Scurrying about, they unloaded and loaded their buggy and wagon, piling in their food supplies and water. With so many doing business, they found out they would be staying the night and they got themselves a room.

      It was understood that the train would then be ready to pull out at dawn. Getting a good night’s sleep and a well-rounded meal, they waited for their departure with excitement.

      Morning arrived, they took their place in line on the train, and they were now Oregon bound. Sitting side by side, they began their journey. Benjamin and Emily were about half way down the train with their wagon and behind them was a wagon filled with so many children, that they were hanging out the sides of the wagon all excited and looking around everywhere.

      Emily watched as the children squirmed and giggled as their wagon rolled along.

      She was thinking to herself that if nothing else, she would really enjoy the children on this train--for she loved children so much.

      She had hoped her own mama would have had many children, but she had her and her brother, and then her mother could have no more. That is where her Aunt Martha came in. She had eleven children and Emily began thinking about the day that her community excommunicated her and made her take all her children for a buggy ride to town and then never return.

      It was heartbreaking and the rules of their community’s faith kept Emily and her family from staying in touch. Although her mother was able to receive a few letters through the years from her sister, it was never enough.

      Emily was so close to her Aunt and to the other children and it broke her heart

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