The very worst missionary - Jamie Wright

"The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says
exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we're too afraid to upset the
apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we're famished for what she
has to say." --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Of Mess and
Moxie and For the Love


Wildly popular blogger "Jamie
the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilarious
memoir of spiritual disintegration and re-formation.


As a quirky Jewish kid and
promiscuous punkass teen, Jamie Wright never imagines becoming a Christian,
let alone a Christian missionary. She is barely an adult when the trials of
motherhood and marriage put her on an unexpected collision course with Jesus.
After finding her faith at a suburban megachurch, Jamie trades in the easy
life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with
her family, she earnestly hopes to serve God and change lives. But faced with
a yawning culture gap and persistent shortcomings in herself and her fellow workers,
she soon loses confidence in the missionary enterprise and falls into a funk
of cynicism and despair.

Nearly paralyzed by depression, yet
still wanting to make a difference, she decides to tell the whole,
disenchanted truth: Missionaries suck and our work makes no sense at all! From
her sofa in Central America, she launches a renegade blog, Jamie the Very
Worst Missionary, and against all odds wins a large and passionate following.
Which leads her to see that maybe a "bad" missionary--awkward,
doubtful, and vocal-is exactly what the world and the throngs of American
do-gooders need.

The Very Worst Missionary is a
disarming, ultimately inspiring spiritual memoir for well-intentioned contrarians
everywhere. It will appeal to readers of Nadia Bolz-Weber, Jen Hatmaker, Ann
Lamott, Jana Reiss, Mallory Ortberg, and Rachel Held Evans.