Photo by Ellen Ferrera
Nancy Burcham is pictured with her seventh published book.

A 40 year process

•October 9, 2019•

By Ellen Ferrera
for the News Progress

Noted Sullivan author, Nancy Burcham, has just published her seventh book. Entitled “Laughter with the Pastor 101” the book puts forth the theme of embracing the attitude of gratitude along with some very funny stories.
“ I actually started writing the book 40 years ago but presses kept going out of business and I couldn’t find a publisher,” Nancy said, noting hip surgery put the book away for a spell.
“Later I was watching a story about the Boston Marathon where one of the bomb victims spoke of embracing the attitude of gratitude and this inspired me to begin again,” she said.
Burcham wrote to ministers and pastors asking them to share some of the funny incidents that had happened in their ministries.
The result is a collection of wonderfully funny stories which Nancy has enhanced with her own spiritual philosophies on being happy and grateful. She also included appropriate quotations from scripture to underscore her points.
Some of the best stories from the book involve baptisms where ministers forgot to fill the baptistry with water. In one, a minister fell backwards into the baptistry located below the floor and in one case, the person being baptized in a river panicked, broke loose from the pastor and floated down the river before being rescued.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.