Kirjahaku

This four book series begins in April, 1899, and 20 year old Amy Stewart is sailing from Scotland to begin a new life in America. Her best friend Sarah had died in childbirth, leaving a physician-husband and three children in New York City. Dr. McCurdy had asked her to help take care of the 4 year old twins and 4 month old baby. Amy had no idea that this adventure would take her to a frontier town in Arizona Territory, or that her steamer trunk would become her Hope Chest, where God would blend reality with the future. In the series that spans 70+ years, lives are intertwined as the McCurdy family lives through the Great War, scarlet fever and influenza epidemics, the Roaring Twenties, the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression, World War II and beyond. Throughout the generations, the Hope Chest continues to provide mysterious, tangible links to the future and the past in this series of time travel with a twist.

It was April, 1899, and 20 year old Amy Stewart was sailing from Scotland to begin a new life in America. Her best friend Sarah had died in childbirth, leaving a physician-husband and three children in New York City. Dr. McCurdy had asked her to help take care of the 4 year old twins and 4 month old baby. Amy had no idea that this adventure would take her to a frontier town in Arizona Territory, or that her steamer trunk would become her Hope Chest, where God would blend reality with the future.The first book in a family saga that spans 100+ years, lives are intertwined as the McCurdy family lives through the Great War, scarlet fever and influenza epidemics, the Roaring Twenties, the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression, World War II and beyond. Throughout the generations, the Hope Chest continues to disclose mysterious, tangible links to the future and the past in this series of time travel with a twist.

Book Two of the Hope Chest series follows the lives of Dr. Andrew McCurdy's family in Prescott, Arizona from the Great War through the Roaring Twenties, concluding at the end of 1929. His wife Amy sees her dream of Hope House, a facility ministering to former prostitutes, blossom and expand. Son Jeremy enlists with the Canadian Army and is sent to France, while son Robbie and daughter Abigail move to New York City, where he attends medical school and she pursues her passion for the suffrage movement. Their lives are impacted by the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the market crash of 1929 threatens the future not only of the family, but of Hope House.In this family saga, God demonstrates that He is outside of time, knowing the end from the beginning. Amy's Hope Chest continues to be the conduit for mysterious links to the past and the future in this series of time travel with a twist.

Book Four, the final volume of the Hope Chest series, follows the lives of the McCurdy family in Prescott, Arizona from 1948 to 1972. The final chapter of the saga of the McCurdy family begins with Dorothy and Phil on their honeymoon in Trieste, Italy, searching for her childhood Jewish pen-pal. God continues to weave together the lives of the family using Amy's steamer trunk, answering prayers and heart-felt cries. Back in Prescott, Arizona, Robbie has retired, and his son David has taken over his small-town practice from the Victorian home on Pleasant Street. In New York, Abigail's daughter Cynthia runs for Congress on a platform of civil rights, which takes her to the March on Washington in 1963 to hear Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr's infamous speech. Barbara finds her great-grandmother's Brownie camera, which sets her on a path toward photo journalism. And Dorothy cries for her talented son, Chris, as he vanishes into the hippie culture of Woodstock.In this family saga, God demonstrates that He is outside of time, knowing the end from the beginning. Amy's Hope Chest continues to be the conduit for mysterious links to the past and the future in this series of time travel with a twist.

Qumran, Israel, February, 2017: An international team of archaeologists find a cave that previously contained Dead Sea Scrolls, the first such discovery in 60 years. Dubbing it Cave 12, they declared it had been looted, and no scrolls were found. But that's not what Dr. Rebecca Castillo and her team from the Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem are told. There was a scroll fragment found, but rather than being from the Torah or the Prophets, it referred to the Apostle Paul - and his trip to Spain. But Paul didn't go to Spain...or did he? Dr. Ben Davidson from Stanford is sent to coordinate the research efforts. Follow Rebecca's team as they try to not only prove the validity of the scroll fragment, but confront their own beliefs about science vs faith...and whether Jesus was their Messiah.