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The late Julia Rippy Boone lived through challenges that would have knocked many flat. Her father abandoned the family; her mother left Julia behind to go searching for her husband. The youngster was raised by her grandparents until her grandmother died and she was sent to a boarding school. World War II interrupted her attempt at college studies.
In the early years of her marriage, she and Phil were so poor that she didn’t have a working stove and their throw rugs and curtains disintegrated when she tried to wash them. Their older son had a medical crisis that was initially (mis)diagnosed as a brain tumor. Sobbing in despair, she begged God for help … and experienced a surprising sense of peace and a recommitment to a special project she’d started for God: writing a book to help children understand the Bible. That book, Getting to Know Your Bible, was published in 1984 by the Baptist Sunday School Board and is still in print and in use nearly 40 years later.
Boone described her life’s goal very simply: to make herself useful to God. She wrote daily, producing curricula for the Sunday school classes she taught and magazine publications that included devotionals in Guideposts. She worked as the receptionist for her husband Phil’s audiology business, a job that proved a perfect match with her writing and research projects. They were married 64 years, had two sons, 14 grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren.
This book is the fruit of decades of study and is published both in recognition of its value and to honor her last words to her son, Mark: “Publish my book.”
Mark Boone
Mark Boone is managing director of the Markus Group Ltd., a global consulting firm that focuses on helping entrepreneurs develop new products and successfully bring them to market. His fascination with history and technical expertise combine in his projects to build a subterranean chapel for the ages in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he lives, and to have published his mother’s outstanding history of the Christian church in the West.
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