Orphan Carpenter

**Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award - Gold Medal Winner,Religion/Spirituality/Instruction** Independent PressAward - Distinguished Favorite,Christian"My God, My God, why haveyou forsaken me?"Have you ever wonderedwhere God is? How can this be happening? What did I do to deserve this? Haveyour circumstances led you to question your faith? Does God care? Does he evenexist?Thoughts flooded my head from our traumatic failedadoption. “Lord, where were you this time? Is this how our seven-year-longjourney to have children ends? Are we being punished? Are we cursed? Thisadoption seemed so right. I thought I was ready. I really thought I could helpthese kids. After all, I started life as an Orphan.”My corebeliefs had been shaken. To make sense of what just happened, I went back andexamined my own life. So many times, the odds were heavily stacked against me,life, and death situations. Yet, somehow, someway, God always showedup.From orphan to carpenter and beyond, the pages of thisbook are my life stories. But the book is not about me or my story. It’s aboutGod’s. As you read these true stories of my life like parables, may they be atestament that God is present and active in your life, that he loves you andhas a plan to give you hope and a future.

"This is a spellbinding personal narrative of Ken McQuarrie’s remarkable life. Remarkable for its authentic processing of pain and suffering, and even more remarkable for the surprising redemptive grace of God that has been evident in the formation and transformation of Ken from earliest breath and onwards. It will bring comfort and insight in pastorally rich ways, and perhaps lead us all closer to the God who is both utterly transcendent AND comforting close (immanent) to each of us, guiding our path … we can be sure He "will shepherd his people forever" (Psalm 28:9)" Professor Ross Hastings, PhD (chemistry, Queen's, Ontario), PhD (theology, St. Andrews, Scotland) ― Sangwoo Youtong Chee Chair of Theology, Regent College, Vancouver B.C., 5-Star Review"McQuarrie was born with a major physical abnormality and was an orphan, not an ideal circumstance for the beginning of anyone's life. What happened after the first three months of his life impacted and shaped him into the man he is today "McQuarrie speaks much about God and how He helped him to be the man he is today, but he doesn't speak in an "uppity" way as he knows more than the reader, but instead, he writes quite the opposite, his writing in general is done in a faith-filled way but the way he reminisces on past events throughout his childhood and life is done so in a positive manner, regardless if he got into trouble during them or not - he writes humbly, showing that he is a sinner and "normal" person as every reader is, making mistakes and learning from themReader Views Book Review, January 25, 2023

An orphan from birth with serious medical complications, Kenneth went into foster care at three months old. Eventually adopted by his foster family, he grew up in a small northern Canadian city. Being raised by loving Christian parents and mentored by his carpenter grandfather, he dreamed of becoming a carpenter himself one day. But the Lord had different plans for young Kenneth. Plans that would take him on an incredible life journey to the pinnacle of the North American construction industry. Kenneth has always held firmly to his faith throughout the journey, trials, and tribulations. He's served in church administration, hosted, and led Bible studies throughout his adult life. He lives in Orange County, California, with his wife, Celine.