Throughout Advent and Christmastide, The Joy of Advent: Family Celebrations for Advent and the Twelve Days of Christmas gives families the opportunity to come together and focus their hearts on the scarlet thread of Christmas—Christ’s love and sacrifice. Woven through the tapestry of Scripture, and utilizing the Jesse Tree, this treasured ecumenical book helps to create poignant memories and beloved traditions.
Rebecca has been writing since childhood, her first book about a kitten published between homemade cardboard covers in second grade. Although she studied religion and philosophy in university, she continued writing, earning an MFA from Hamline University and publishing multiple picture books (no longer with homemade covers) and a collection of poetry with a variety of New York and independent publishers. She has also published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry in magazines and journals and photographs for Getty Images. She balances writing with homeschooling the younger of her six children, launching her young adults, church activities, and overseeing a small flock of chickens in rural West Michigan.
