HAS CHRONIC ILLNESS SHATTERED YOUR DREAMS? NEW DEVOTIONAL BOOK HELPS PUT PIECES BACK TOGETHER

SAN DIEGO, CA, FEB 2003 - If youve been touched by chronic illness, Mosaic Moments, a devotional book for the chronically ill, is your spiritual glue! Written by Lisa Copen, 34, founder of Rest Ministries, and over twenty contributors, Mosaic Moments offers daily hope, understanding, and friends for the journey" toward putting the pieces back together. Published in February 2003 by Rest Ministries Publishers, Mosaic Moments is, ...A virtual cupboard brimming with heart-to-heart stories grounded in Biblical truth; it is written by real people in the trenches of chronic illness," says Roberta Messner, Ph.D., RN.

Phillip H. Barnhart, Doctor of Ministry and founding pastor and Pastor Emeritus of Chapel on the Hill, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin says, The authors of Mosaic Moments prove that just because you have pain doesn't mean you have to be one! With joy flooding forth in concise bursts of truth and integrity, the authors write convincingly and hopefully."

This book illustrates what people with hidden illnesses are becoming in the hands of Gods workmanship," shares Don Crooker President of the Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities, Int. I must confess that their spiritual development, maturity and insight is far ahead of mine."

Rest Ministries offers free daily online devotionals via their web site. People have experienced a tremendous burst of spiritual growth through the devotionals," says Copen. Living with illness can cause us to wonder if God has tripped and hollered 'Oops! with our lives, but through the hopeful, familiar stories of others, we find our lives taking a new shape; some would say God is creating a mosaic of art out of the fragments of our lives."

Lisa Copen is the founder of Rest Ministries, Inc., a Christian organization for those who live with chronic illness or pain that offers various programs and resources, including over 250 HopeKeepers groups in churches across the U.S. and internationally. Learn more at www.restministries.org. Rest Ministries also sponsors National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week annually in September. See www.invisibleillness.com. Lisa lives in San Diego with her husband and her son, born in January 2003.

Mosaic Moments: Devotionals for the Chronically Ill
ISBN: 0-9716600-3-4
Trade Paperback; $12
Rest Ministries Publishers
Available at www.comfortzonebooks.com or call toll-free 888.751.7378
Contact: Lisa Copen
888.751.7378, fax 800.933.1078
PO Box 502928
San Diego, CA 92150