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	Barbara Bartocci (left) talks about her new book Grace on the Go with a visitor to the Church Publishing booth at General Convention. Photos by Melodie Woerman

Kansas authors release
new books

By Melodie Woerman
Editor, The Harvest

Barbara Bartocci knows people are busy, with lives full of jobs, children and errands. But she knows people of faith want to add prayer time to their lives. She has found a way to do both.

Bartocci, a member of St. Michael’s, Mission, has written Grace on the Go: 101 Quick Ways to Pray as a way to turn everyday events into prayer opportunities.

Even mundane things are times for prayer, she says. When filling your car with gas, ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with love. When stopped at a red light, use the time to ask God’s forgiveness for any hurts you may have caused.

She practices what she preaches, too. On a recent visit to the post office, she found herself in a long line. Fighting a growing impatience, she turned the time into an opportunity to ask God to bless the postal workers and their families.

The book, sized to fit into a purse or backpack, sells for $9.95 and is published by Morehouse Publishing, a part of the Church Publishing Company. More infroamtion is available from Morehouse.

Chameleon Days

	Tim Bascom has written a book about growing up with missionary parents in Ethiopia.

Former Kansan Tim Bascom has written a memoir of his childhood growing up with missionary parents in Ethiopia.

Chameleon Days: An American Childhood in Ethiopia is published by Houghton Mifflin. His book is being compared to The Poisonwood Bible for its glimpse into the world of missionary life.

Information on the book is available from the publisher.

Bascom lived in Manhattan from 1993-2001 when his wife, the Rev. Cathy Chittenden Bascom, was chaplain at Kansas State University.