The books
Every book here began as something lived, not imagined. Some come out of years walking alongside families of the incarcerated. Some come out of decades in prayer and prophetic ministry. Some come out of a lifetime spent learning the basics of faith the hard way, then teaching them to others. They come from the same place: a woman who has stood in courtrooms, prisons, church foyers, and prayer rooms, and has something to say about all of it.
True Justice
A memoir of raw honesty and hard-won faith
In 1983, police knocked on Verna McFelin's door in New Zealand and arrested her husband Paul for kidnapping. He was sentenced to eleven years. She was left with her children, her faith, and no name for what she was living. Not a widow. Not divorced. Not a victim in any way the world around her recognised as a story worth telling.
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True Justice
A gentle book for the children who carry a sentence they did not earn, and for the caregivers and teachers walking alongside them. More than 20,000 children in New Zealand have a parent in prison.
True Justice
The story of Pillars from 1988 to 2020: the years I spent building the thing my family had needed all along, while Paul was still behind the wire.