About The Author

When you have walked country roads to school and church, worked in dusty fields starting at age five, grown up in the tangles of segregation,  witnessed family members and college friends being sent off to fight in an international war in the sixties and seventies, and then spent thirty years educating high school students about the causes and effects of such times, you ought to have a book or two in you. Mary does!
Furthermore, God has used her gifts to teach an outreach focused Sunday school class, serve in leadership roles in Christian Education and other church ministries, become a motivational and retreat speaker, and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.  One endeavor that took her on a major faith journey occurred when she was directed by God to write, direct and produce This is My Beloved Son, a passion play about the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ which had an eventual run as an official Cherry Blossom Festival event. Having ended in 2000, people still speak of its transforming impact, and plea for its revival almost twenty years later.
Presently retired from teaching Social Studies in the Bibb County School District since 1999, Mary Taylor Whitfield now directs Manna of Hope Resource Center, a Christian nonprofit teaching and counseling agency she founded in 2001. It has educated, empowered and inspired thousands of females in the areas of life skills, consumer awareness and technology. Additionally, private sessions are provided with licensed professional counselors.
Two previous books have been self-published and sold well through personal efforts: The Simple Truth about Fear, a Christian devotional, and Mrs. Adams Teaches a Lesson for a Lifetime, a children’s book.
Her husband, daughters and grands share in her very active life of ministering, traveling, and creating events to meet up with family and friends.