and as only Claire can

Each reading will speak to your heart as you experience and reflect on the inspiration that can only be found through an intimate relationship with the Master Creator

behind the towering Wall

the idyllic location feels ever more remote

and dignity of its telling

Ocho, Ocho: My Childhood in War-Torn Asia Women Biographies for Children and as only Claire canTold in a series of letters to her eight grandchildren, Ocho, Ocho recounts Anna's tumultuous childhood growing up in China and the Philippines during World War II. Born in 1934 on the Chinese island of Hainan to Presbyterian missionaries, Anna describes life under Japanese occupation as she remembers it. The author's childhood in Hainan, China and internment by the Japanese in Los Banos, Phillipines, culminated in a rescue by MacArthur's 11th