Rudo (Love): Deeper than Skin
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In a story that spans time and continents, the author takes the reader on a journey that evokes feelings of elation as well as sadness. This book shows how the power of love transcends race, language, and culture. The author delves into the challenges and blessings of friendship and love in face of adversity; she helps the reader appreciate the double sided experience of following one's heart in face of discrimination and support from the faith community. This is her personal story, how she and her husband met at college in a small southern town in Georgia and have settled in a rural Amish community in Pennsylvania. With the blending of her husband's African heritage and her Amish roots, this intriguing story will prove love is deeper than skin.
The book will involve details about the Zimbabwean and Amish cultures. It will include significant details of their lives, of which culture is a main part of who they are and is a huge part of their story. For those of you who will persevere in reading it, may you see God’s hand of providence in every detail of their lives. Join with them and discover, as they have, that rudo (love) is deeper than skin.
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In a story that spans years and continents, the author takes the reader on a journey that evokes feelings of elation as well as sadness. This book shows how the power of love transcends race, language, and culture. The author delves into the challenges and blessings of friendship and love in face of adversity; she helps the reader appreciate the double-sided experience of following one’s heart in the face of discrimination and support from the faith community. She shares her husband’s story of growing up in Zimbabwe, Africa, and how God paved a way for him to study in the United States. This book also includes their personal story of overcoming racial and cultural barriers in their relationship. With the blending of her husband’s African heritage and her Amish roots, this story proves that love is deeper than skin.
About the Author
Beth Chakara is a wife and mother of two teenage children. She resides with her family in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Family Ministries and serves as an office manager and as a psychometrist in her husband’s psychology practice.