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Marshele Carter Waddell has recently spoken on the topics listed below. Select from these suggested themes from her portfolio. If none of these fit your needs, we will gladly create a presentation that does.

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Topics

  • Lord, Fill Me (Part 1) — The Woman and her Empty Places
  • Lord, Fill Me (Part 2) — God's Grace for the Empty Place
  • Facing Fear with Faith
  • Interruptions, Inconveniences and Other Intrusions: Anger and the Alternative
  • Duet Duty and the Solo Spouse: Busyness, Burnout and the Bible
  • Got the “T”-Shirt? Tempted, Teased, Tantalized and Tested
  • Foreigners Focused on Forever: Citizens of Heaven
  • Family, Friends and Faraway Places: The Sacrifice of Separation
  • The Language of Life: Are You Fluent?
  • God's Heart: The Place I Call Home
  • The Gardener: God Transplants the Seedling, the Potted Plant, and the Rose
  • Fingerprints, Fragrance and Faith: Making Sense of our Responsibility to Share Our Faith
  • When My Glory Passes By: The Reason for Everything
  • How to Pray Like Jesus
  • The Gospel According to Tea
  • War Wounds: A Time for Healing — Preparing Military Homes for PTSD

 

What Makes Hope for the Home Front Competitive

A Leader in a New Publishing Niche
Hope for the Home Front: Winning the Emotional and Spiritual Battles of the Military Wife stands out in the new niche of publications targeted to the military wife. Since September 11, 2001, America and her allies have begun to recognize and appreciate the armed forces and their families who sacrifice to protect their precious freedoms.

A Source of True Strength
Hope for the Home Front: Winning the Emotional and Spiritual Battles of the Military Wife is written to encourage the soul and to feed the spirit of the wives of servicemen. Its greatest strength is its inspiration, the Word of God, which is alive and active, pierces the heart, and can divide soul and spirit. “All Scripture is God-breathed,” a truth that makes Hope for the Home Front a living, breathing book which speaks to the military wife's heart of hearts. The author's Bible knowledge, experience in teaching Scripture and ability to apply Truth with honesty and humor give Life to Hope for the Home Front that its competitors lack. This also makes Hope for the Home Front a timeless publication, applicable to any generation.

No one wants to read another rendition of “How to Survive Deployment” or any other "how to cope" publication, which most of the competition is and which servicemen or family members can easily access free of charge at any Fleet and Family Service Center, Readiness Support Group meeting or chaplain's office. Hope for the Home Front is fresh, real and worthwhile; it is not a redesigned regurgitation of government brochures and pamphlets. The River of Life flows through its pages and invites the tired and thirsty to come, drink and live.

An Experienced Author
Secondly, the author's personal experiences and familiarity with the military lifestyle from a wife's perspective lend credibility to Hope for the Home Front. Some of the writers of competing books are not even women, much less military wives. Readers want to hear from one who has lived there, not from one who stopped in for the weekend. Marshele Carter Waddell is the 20-year wife of a career U.S. Navy SEAL. Together she, her husband and their three children have endured many lengthy separations and frequent deployments for special operations training and real world conflicts for two decades. The majority of America's military families have just begun to cope with the challenges that the author has lived with for more than twenty years. Also, the lifestyle of a Special Operations Forces member and his family is a more intense, condensed, unpredictable version of the average military experience. This, too, sets Hope for the Home Front apart from the competition, adding depth, believability, compassion and stirring, true stories which readers want in a book.

A Practical Purchase and an Enjoyable Read
Hope for the Home Front is also practical. It is small, simple and easy to read. Today's woman has a full plate. She reaches for the book that gets to the point and that hits the spot.

 

Timeless truth, stirring anecdotes, fresh perspective, practicality and an author who writes with humor, straightforwardness and credibility combine to make Hope for the Home Front a winner in the battle for the military wife's heart and soul.