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092    BIO|bWRIGHT 
100 1  Wright, Jamie,|eauthor. 
245 14 The very worst missionary :|ba memoir or whatever /|cJamie
       Wright. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bConvergent Books,|c[2018] 
300    xvii, 221 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    As a quirky Jewish kid and promiscuous punkass teen, Jamie
       Wright never imagines becoming a Christian, let alone a 
       Christian missionary. She is barely an adult when the 
       trials of motherhood and marriage put her on an unexpected
       collision course with Jesus. After finding her faith at a 
       suburban megachurch, Jamie trades in the easy life on the 
       cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, 
       along with her family, she earnestly hopes to serve God 
       and change lives. But faced with a yawning culture gap and
       persistent shortcomings in herself and her fellow workers,
       she soon loses confidence in the missionary enterprise and
       falls into a funk of cynicism and despair.  

Nearly 
       paralyzed by depression, yet still wanting to make a 
       difference, she decides to tell the whole, disenchanted 
       truth: Missionaries suck and our work makes no sense at 
       all! From her sofa in Central America, she launches a 
       renegade blog, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary, and 
       against all odds wins a large and passionate following. 
       Which leads her to see that maybe a "bad" missionary--
       awkward, doubtful, and vocal—is exactly what the world and
       the throngs of American do-gooders need. 
600 10 Wright, Jamie. 
650  0 Missionaries|zCosta Rica|vBiography. 
650  0 Jews|xConversion to Christianity. 
650  0 Christian converts from Judaism. 
655  0 Christian biography.