Let the Church Say Amen

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Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a bold and heartwarming story of family and faith about a man who has succeeded as a reverend and failed as a father.

Reverend Simon Jackson has always felt destined to lead and hes done a good job of it, transforming his small Houston church into one of the most respected and renowned in the region. But while the good Reverends been busy tending his flock, his familys gone astray.

His nineteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, gives new meaning to baby mama drama. Crazy in love with her sons father, she's wreaking havoc on the mans life, even though he's about to marry another woman. David, Simon's oldest at twenty-seven, has been spiraling downward ever since a knee injury ended a promising football career. These days hes seeking solace in drugseven feeding his habit by stealing church offerings. Blessedly, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan, a college graduate and the apple of Simons eye, is poised to take his fathers side as associate pastoror so everyone thinks. Loretta has been a devoted wife to Simon, but shes beginning to realize that enabling him to give more to the church than to his children was her biggest mistake. As things begin to fall apart and secrets are revealed, will Loretta be able to help her husband reunite their tattered family before its too late

Let the Church Say Amen is a powerful journey through one familys trialsand a remarkable story of reconciliation and love. When things are down to the wire will Reverend Simon Jackson choose to fight for his family or the congregation

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ReShonda Tate Billingsleys #1 nationally bestselling novels includeLet the Church Say Amen,I Know Ive Been Changed, andSay Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her collaboration with Victoria Christopher Murray has produced four hit novels,Sinners & Saints,Friends & Foes,A Blessing & a Curse, andFortune & Fame.BET released a movie in 2013 based on ReShondas bookLet the Church Say Amenin which she had a minor role.She also had a role in the made-for-TV movieThe Secret She Keptbased on her book of the same title. Visit ReShondaTateBillingsley.com, meet the author on Facebook at ReShondaTateBillingsley, or follow her on Twitter @ReShondaT.