A good friend and colleague, Rev. Bessie Adams, is writing a study guide for The Heliotrope Narratives: Game Changers -Book I. Bessie is a pastor and also holds a Master of Christian Education degree from Asbury College. The study guide is a chapter by chapter series of study question, Scripture lessons, and activities designed to help the novel’s readers find the deepest meaning of the book for their lives. (NOTE: the suggested reading level for The Heliotrope Narratives: Game Changers-Part I is age 10-adult.) Both the novel and study guide are designed for personal reading, prayer, and reflection plus use in groups including church school classes, book reading groups, Christian schools (including middle and secondary schools, colleges, and seminaries ), homeschoolers (and co-ops), mission societies, and evangelism initiatives.

Bessie Adams holds a Master of Christian Education Degree from Asbury Seminary and completed additional ministerial studies leading to her ordination as a United Methodist pastor. She has directed children’s church camps, has completed over 330 hours of study in pastoral care and counseling, and teaches a class about Christian education in the smaller membership church for the Indiana Conference UMC License to Preach School. Bessie has served churches as a pastor since 2006 and currently serves two United Methodist churches in Hutsonville and Robinson (Otterbein), IL in the Great Rivers Conference of the UMC. She is the mother of two sons, an environmental engineer and a two-time Iraq War veteran now working in auto sales, and has eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren including four foster great-grand-children. Bessie also manages to find time for her husband, John, a United Methodist pastor in New Harmony, IN and for her hobbies: aviation, gardening, and painting, including the cover art for The Heliotrope Narratives.