The Faithful Hands Series
Warm, faith-filled children's books about family, meaningful work, and the wisdom passed from one generation to the next.
Growing capable hands in a hands-off world.
Painting by Vanessa Tina
Book One
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Eight-year-old Jacob can't wait to help Grandpa repair a broken fence at Riverstone Ranch. But real work doesn't always go according to plan. The wire snaps, tools slip, Trouble the cow lives up to her name, and Grandpa's hat goes flying.
With a pair of oversized hand-me-down gloves and Grandpa's patient guidance, Jacob discovers that building takes more than strong hands. It takes patience, listening, and the courage to keep trying.
Filled with farm humor, family warmth, and timeless faith, it celebrates meaningful work and the wisdom passed from one generation to the next, because capability is lovingly taught, and no one is born knowing.
God gives us something to work and care for. — Genesis 2:15
Woven naturally into ordinary moments, never added as a forced lesson.
Children who contribute, persevere, solve problems, and do real work with real tools.
A grown-up slows down and shows a child how. That is where capability begins.
Caring well for what God has placed in a family's hands: land, work, and each other.
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Book One · Riverstone Ranch
Eight-year-old Jacob can't wait to help Grandpa repair a broken fence at Riverstone Ranch. But real work doesn't always go according to plan. The wire snaps, tools slip, Trouble the cow lives up to her name, and Grandpa's hat goes flying.
God gives us something to work and care for. — Genesis 2:15
Book Two · Coming soon
A bundle of bare little sticks doesn't look like much of a gift. But an orchard begins with someone willing to plant what they may never see the fruit of their labor.
Faithful work is planting toward a future harvest. — Proverbs 11:18
Ahead
The same family, the same land, new seasons of work worth doing.
Book Three: coming soon
One pair of hands wasn't enough
Some things are too hard to cross alone.
"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow."- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
The Author
Rachel writes stories about children learning to do real things with people who love them. The small, patient moments when a grown-up slows down and a child gets a turn are what led her to create the Faithful Hands series. Farming runs through Rachel’s family, and she has a soft spot for lessons learned while hands are busy. When she is not writing, photographing grandchildren, or turning family memories into yearly photo books, she has even earned a commercial FAA Part 107 drone pilot certificate. Rachel and Jerry split their time between Minnesota and Texas and have three grown children and eight grandchildren.
More about RachelEndorsements from parents, grandparents, homeschool families, Christian educators, and rural readers will appear here as What Builders Grow reaches its first families.
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