<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">What happens when three American women put their faith into action in a developing nation? In<i>I Am That Child</i>, Episcopal priest Elizabeth Geitz proves that cross-cultural relationships among people of faith can change our world ... one person at a time.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">Geitz welcomes readers to join her pilgrimage to an orphanage in Cameroon, sharing both humorous and gut-wrenching wisdom from leaders and children who struggle against AIDS, global poverty and sexism. Along the way, Geitz and readers take a hard look at race and cultural privilege and find hope for reconciliation back home. The book concludes with study and resource guides to help readers engage global poverty efforts and build community across continents <i>and</i> across the street.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="background:white; margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">“Elizabeth Geitz's odyssey to a Cameroon orphanage yields profound insights into AIDS, the criminalization of HIV, and racial and gender discrimination -- not to mention a narrative that is as breath-taking as it is inspiring.” – <b><i><span style="background:white">John Berendt, Author of</span></i><span style="background:white">Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil<i></i></span></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">“This is the most compelling book about mission that is honest-to-God … and honest-before-God … that I have ever read. If it does not move us to contrition, affectionate love, and then to action, the fault is with us and not with the book or the story it tells.”</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">Phyllis Tickle, Author of</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">Embracing Emergence Christianity<i> and former religion editor for</i>Publishers Weekly</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span class="x_apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span class="x_apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">“Geitz takes us into a brilliant world -- one seldom seen through Western eyes. If you see this world, I predict two things. First, you will not look away. Lastly, you will discover here courage and perseverance.” <b><i>Michael Battle, Author of</i>Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me</b></span><i> </i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">“… a touching account of learning and growing across boundaries of culture and economics in a Cameroonian orphanage where we see ‘the love of God materialized.’ Geitz’ book will encourage Westerners to explore solidarity with companions in the Two-Thirds World – and with those suffering injustice at home.”</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">Titus Presler, Principal, Edwardes College in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Author of</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">Going Global with God: Reconciling Mission in a World of Difference</span></b><b><i></i></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:verdana">“The stories unfold in short, lively chapters and take the reader on a fascinating journey. Elizabeth Geitz writes lucidly and engagingly of her own priv