"Love Him For Us - by Barbara Marquart Johnston (Paperback)

About the Book

"From Fort To Fort" might have been the title of this book, since my story begins in Fort Worth, TX and ends in Fort Wayne, IN. During those years, I have been surrounded by people of Faith, young and old. In Ft Worth, before I went to Australia, I was the Jr Youth Director, as well as the church secretary at my home congregation.

Book Synopsis

"From Fort To Fort" might have been the title of this book, since my story begins in Fort Worth, TX and ends in Fort Wayne, IN.

During those years, I have been surrounded by people of Faith, young and old. In Ft Worth, before I went to Australia, I was the Jr Youth Director, as well as the church secretary at my home congregation, St. Paul Lutheran Church.

In Australia, I taught art, grades one through 10 in our Lutheran schools.

Upon return to the States, I was secretary to Dr. Charles Evanson for three years, for Dr. Eugene Bunkowske for a year, served in acquisitions in the seminary library, resettled refugees with Catholic Charities, and taught English as a second language to Laotians.

At Ascension Lutheran Church in Ft Wayne, I was first a teacher's aide at the preschool, followed by ten years in the capacity of full-time church/ school secretary under Dr. John Stube.

These activities placed me in a position to appreciate the points of view of clergy as well as laity.

Oh, yes, I was also the wife of a busy pastor/professor, mother to five great kids, foster mom to two teenage boys in Australia, and at last count, between Bob and me, I am grandmother to 31 children!

To God be the Glory!

Review Quotes

Love Him for Us is like a warm cup of the Queen's tea and tasty tarts
with whipped cream! Marvelous and meant to be shared with others! Barb
Marquart Johnston does a fantastic job taking you through the fascinating
and encouraging journey of her life including her own great happiness, sacrifices,
rewards, struggles, and tremendous joys. What a splendid encouragement
to pastors and their wives who serve Christ's Church now. These
memoirs remind us that the Lord's hand is truly guiding us in our life on a
day to day basis and He has a plan for each of us! Readers will smile, cry,
and laugh throughout because of the honest account of church work life we
all face as a pastor's family, especially the pastor's wife! Yet, Barb Marquart
Johnston cheerfully reminds us to find joy, not just in the daily adventures,
but in the ultimate truth that we ALL, as God's people, have forgiveness
and grace in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God for wonderful,
selfless, pastors such as Dr. Marquart, who preach and teach Christ
crucified! --Mrs. Sarah Bibb

In the short time that I have known Barbara as her Pastor and in all
our correspondence from the beginning, she is a lady of great courage and
honor, with the same witty insights and deep convictions of the late Dr.
Marquart. I wonder if he picked some of that up from her? Either way,
there is certainly a common thread between the two, and how fitting for
it to be her in writing such a book. -- Rev. James Gier