Christian Literature for Your Family
June 2022 marked the 25th anniversary of the founding of Early Foundations Publishers (EFP). Our readers may find a brief history of EFP interesting, so we asked two of the original board members, Mr. Thomas Stryd and Mr. Marinus VanBrugge, to share their memories.
John Warburton (1776-1857) is born the son of a poor weaver in Stand, England, near the large, industrial city of Manchester. Like his father, John becomes a weaver, but the Lord has another task laid away for him: preacher of the Gospel! After serving a congregation in Rochdale for a few years, John becomes preacher in Trowbridge in 1815.
One beautiful June morning Pierre Cavier had a rare opportunity. He had expected he’d have to go to the vineyard again to tie up the vines. It was the time of the year for doing that, and he had been helping his father for days already. Dad said that this was just the job for Pierre. With his thin, nimble twelve-year-old fingers, he could hold the vines much better than his father, Jean, whose fingers had become stiff from years of hard work.
Olivia has always spent hours with her Grandmother. She is an only child, and Grandma is her favorite playmate. One icy morning, Grandma meets with a terrible accident, and life changes for the whole family. Will Olivia’s love overcome her fear of the people at Grandma’s nursing home? What about the teasing of her classmates? Olivia has much to learn. Some lessons are learned at school, some at the care home, and some are best learned by the still small voice in her heart.
It is the summer of 1536 in Geneva. A coach stops in front of the watchmaker’s house, and a nobleman traveling under the name of Charles d’Espeville steps out of the carriage. Just like many of his countrymen, he has fled the persecution in France. His real name is John Calvin. It all begins in Paris when Calvin is a student. There he meets the winemaker Cavier from a nearby village. Later Calvin asks him to protect a portion of his Institutes. He meets the winemaker and his family again in Italy, another dangerous area for Protestants. Cavier and a peddler named Antoine devise a plan for Calvin to escape his enemies.