Jim Elliot was born in a coal-mining town. He attended eleven different schools as his family moved from mining camp to mining camp. Following six years at the University of Alberta, Jim graduated and was ordained as a United Church minister. The next forty years were split between Alberta and British Columbia as he worked in rural areas, suburbs, First Nations communities and finally as head of a large inner-city mission in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. On retirement he moved to the Sunshine Coast, spent some time volunteering with the local hospice community and then joined a writing group. He and his wife, Geniene, have five children and eight delightful grandchildren.
Belly of Blackness
Belly of Blackness
Coal Dust in my Genes
Jim Elliott
Two men, one in Italy and the other in Scotland, make the decision to leave their wealthy families and the women they love to make a new life in distant Canada. Their dreams of a better life drive them deep into the belly of blackness that is a coal mine as they forge their way across this new land by digging underneath it. Eventually, their efforts see their children following in their nomadic footsteps, determined to wash the dust from their backs for the last time.
Belly of Blackness is one family’s story of struggle and triumph. The pioneering ways of their adopted home find them constantly moving, always searching for more from life and working underground so their descendants will have the chance to spend their days in the sun.
ISBN: 9781926991306
CDN/USD $19.95
