** Children's Book International Finalist **

​​​​​​​*** Literary Global Children's Book Awards Finalist***

**** Positive Impact Book Awards Finalist****

If you think a foot race with a couple friends is fun, you should try a relay race with all of your friends.

Brutus and his friends are off on another adventure.

How can they make a game that includes everyone?

What happens when the players are not strong enough to run with the sticks?

How about new friends that are not big enough to wander too far from the nest?

With a little bit of teamwork and problem-solving skills

Everyone can have fun.

This book is part of the Brutus and Friends series. Collect them all!

This book is available in hardcover and paperback.

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Church and Ministry category

Caring for Children Through Crochet is a pastoral resource for those who facilitate a Prayer Shawl Ministry or who just love to crochet. The focus of this book is ministering to children. It includes reflections on children and parenting skills based on Scripture, crochet patterns for children’s items (caps and other clothing, toys, finger puppets, blankets, and dragon capes), and articles by experts in the fields on how best to minister to children from specific groups (adopted, Gifted, Special Needs, survivors of abuse and violence, as well as members of a religious group, grandparents, and setting boundaries).

This book will help you feed His sheep.

Evelyn Rainey is an American educator, author, and publisher. She has crocheted since before Mankind landed on the moon. She facilitates a Prayer Shawl Ministry and is available to assist groups and individuals minister to others through crochet.

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Understanding the Faith category

Everything changes. So in a world where everything changes, how do we stay aligned with the God who does not change?

This message includes a pastoral prayer, the message, a benediction, and Scriptural and hymn references, There are discussion questions which can be used for small group study or personal reflection.

About the Author

** 2024 Silver American Writing Award **

** Children's Book International Finalist **

On a bright sunny day what could be better than going on a hunt with your friends?
Who can find all the items the fastest?
On a scavenger hunt, do rules really matter?
Can everyone have fun if even one person doesn’t follow the rules?
Can a last place end a friendship?
Being a good sport and having fun is more important than who wins the game.

Collect and share all of the Brutus and Friends books!

Book trailer

This is a 6 by 9 inch illustrated paperback.

About the Author

Tif was raised in Marana, Arizona and was working concession stands at county fairs in Arizona and Michigan with her family until she graduated from high school. She became a mother and correctional officer in 2004. She then moved to Nevada, Missouri with her family where she was blessed with her second daughter and fell into a career of nurse's assistant for Hospice.

 Tif and her family relocated to Mulberry, Florida in 2017. In her free time, Tif can usually be found on the water or at amusement parks spending time with family and friends and simply enjoying the life that God has blessed her with.

Tif E. Boots is available for interviews, discussion groups, book signing events, and would be honored to speak with any local civic service group, religious organization, or business about caregiving, glass art, writing children’s books.

** Persons of the Year Book Award Long List! **

Brutus and Scrump find Charlie missing.
Charlie finds himself in trouble.
Can Brutus and Scrump think of a plan to rescue their friend?
Not all ideas are perfect but each one can lead to a better plan.
Will new friends come to help, or will Charlie be left hanging around?

Included are discussion questions and sequencing skills activities.

Book Trailer

This is part of the Brutus and Friends collection. 

About the Author Tif E. Boots 

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Fiction category

Portals of Light & Doors of Despair Book 1

When Lambs of Light pray intensely, the power doesn’t just form a halo; it opens a Portal of Light to other worlds. However, the same can be true for Dark Soldiers; their Doors of Despair open to other worlds, and one of them is Earth.The Angel of the Lord warned Reverend Atticus Jordan that the war was coming to Earth, but a warrior would be sent to him to help train an army to hold back the dark. The angel neglected to tell Atticus that Gwen, the warrior, would be pregnant and may not want to fight anymore.Each elder in Atticus’ church has faced despair – death, loss, betrayal -- and chosen to live in hope, joy, and grace. They know that the war is coming; they know that they must choose again, for Light or Dark, when Gwen shows up at Morning Creek. Roving bands of looters in black capes and swords catch the attention of Colonel Morgan Forest of the Internal Intelligence Agency who has fought wars his entire life. His trail leads him to Gwen – whom he’s met before when her family was assassinated – and Gwen’s trail leads him to this radical band of parishioners. He sends in his spy; he knows they have formed a militia. He could stop them; he could destroy their sect with a stroke of his pen. But for Morgan, the shadow-line between darkness and light is not that precise.Comes the Warrior is the first of seven books in the series Portals of Light & Doors of Despair. It has a discussion guide which will be perfect for book clubs.

About the Author Evelyn Rainey

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Understanding the Faith category

This message is for all you heroes with flaws. God wants to heal those flaws, but you must follow His instructions. It is based on the story of Naaman, the fierce and well-respected warrior, who had leprosy.

This message includes a pastoral prayer, the message, a benediction, and scriptural and hymn references. There are discussion questions which can be used for small group study or personal reflection.

Look for more Ministry and Evangelism books in this series: A Message by Evelyn Rainey.

About the Author

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ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Understanding the Faith category

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Who Are You When You Meet Jesus in the Church?
Who Are You When Disaster Strikes?
Who Are You When Jesus Orders You to Do Something?

Are you like Mary, or are you like Martha?

Based on Luke 10:38-42, John 11:17-27, and John 11:38-45, this message includes a pastoral prayer, the message, a benediction, and scriptural and hymn references. There are discussion questions which can be used for small group study or personal reflection.

This is part of the series A Message by Evelyn Rainey.

** Winner of 2025 Christlit Award **

In this busy, fast-paced, complex, and oftentimes troubled existence, our experiences can make us cynical, discouraged, and even unbelieving; making it easy for our connection with God and His Son, Jesus Christ to wane. Sacred Strains of Praise is a collection of spiritual poetry and beautiful photography that not only helps the reader find or restore our association with God and yoke us with Christ, but through reading examples of how others glorify God and praise Jesus, we too will find the desire to worship the divine. Indeed, this collection contains the stories, psalms, and celebrations of our lives that honor God and reverence Jesus. Join the authors, Michael Parker and Michael Shoemaker, on an odyssey as they search for God, dictate the experiences of life's journey and discover Jesus through personal and others' spiritual experiences. Within these pages, you will find yourselves transported, touched, enriched, and inspired.

Winner of the Utah State Poetry Society's Book of the Year Award in 2021, Michael Parker’s poems and book reviews have appeared in magazines worldwide.

Poet and photographer Michael Shoemaker received a Living Waters Award in Poetry at Blue Lake Christian Writer’s Conference and is a three-time nominee to the Best of the Net Anthology Awards.

This book contains a discussion guide for book clubs, study groups, and individual contemplation.

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Health and Well-being category 

This message is for all those who are too terrified or too bone-weary to leave their despair behind. You can; you must. And God will help you begin again. Like Noah, our story does not end with us being shut inside the ark. At some point, we must be ready to leave the ark. This message helps you determine your actions while you are Waiting for Dry Land.

This message includes a pastoral prayer, the message, a benediction, and scriptural and hymn references. There are discussion questions which can be used for small group study or personal reflection.

About the Author

ChristLit Book Award 2025 – Health and Well-being category

When everything gets washed away, God tells us to build, gather, surrender and accept the truth.

Based on the story of The Great Flood, the reader follows how God prepared Noah for the flood, how Noah followed God's directions, and how, in the darkest time of Noah's life, God was there. In the belief that everyone eventually faces a time when everything gets washed away, this book helps the reader rely on God during such times.

This message includes a pastoral prayer, the message, a benediction, and scriptural and hymn references. There are discussion questions which can be used for small group study or personal reflection.

About the Author