The Beautiful Disappointment:
Colin McCartney

6x9 - 208 Pages

The many challenges life throws at us do not shape us. How we respond
to these challenges do. In "The Beautiful Disappointment" urban
youth worker and author, Colin McCartney, shares his personal struggles
in dealing with the murder of one of his staff, the death of a child in
his program and his own near death experience from a paralysing water
accident in Hawaii. While the author was recovering from this life
threatening accident in the critical care unit of Maui Memorial
Hospital he slowly realizes that trials are "beautiful
disappointments" God can use to purge us off all the false things we
have allowed to disfigure who we truly are. It is through this
"refining by trials" that the author experiences the intimate
presence of God, a presence in our soul that frees us to reconnect to
who we truly are as God originally created us to be. A true story that
will leave the reader truly changed.

About the Author

Rev. Colin McCartney is the Executive Director of UrbanPromise Toronto,
a faith based charity founded by Dr. Anthony Campolo that serves at -
risk urban families, in the city of Toronto. He is an ordained minister
through the Associated Gospel Churches of Canada and in high demand as a
speaker and provides ministry training at churches, conferences and
ministry equipping events including Arrow Leadership, Promise Keepers
Canada and Oasis
He has also appeared on CTS Television - both individually and with Dr.
Tony Campolo.