| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
A Dream So Big is the story of Steve Peifer, a corporate manager who once oversaw 9,000 computer software consultants, who today helps provide daily lunches for over 20,000 Kenyan school children in thirty-five national public schools, and maintains solar-powered computer labs at twenty rural African schools. Steve and his wife, Nancy, were enjoying a successful management career with one of America's high tech corporate giants during the dot-com boom of the 1990's when, in 1997, he and his wife Nancy discovered they were pregnant with their third child. Tragically, doctors said a chromosomal condition left their baby "incompatible with life." The Peifers only spent 8 days with baby Stephen before he died. Seeking to flee the pain, Steve and Nancy began a pilgrimage that thrust them into a third-world setting where daily life was often defined by tragedy -- drought, disease, poverty, hunger, and death. They didn't arrive in the service of any divine calling, but the truth of their surroundings spoke to their troubled hearts. A short-term, 12-month mission assignment as dorm parents for a Kenyan boarding school turned this ordinary man into the most unlikely internationally recognized hero, and his story will inspire you to pursue similar lives of service. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Peifer, Steve.
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Church work with children -- Kenya.
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Missionaries -- Kenya -- Biography.
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Missions -- Kenya -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, Gregg, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Peifer, Steve. Dream so big. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2013. 9780310326090 (hardcover) (DLC)2012034384 |
| Standard No. |
9780310587156 |
| ISBN |
9780310587156 (epub) |
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