“The idea to write about impactful people around me and others came to me while I was writing my first book,” the positive-to-the-core Pemberton says, referring to the memoir A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home (2012), which was made into a 2017 movie. Launched in late September, it’s titled, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World (Zondervan, 240 pages). Pemberton’s second book features 10 lighthouses with heartbeats. “A lighthouse,” Lake Forest author Steve Pemberton says, “is the most selfless structure, one that has never needed technology. Need a light, be it atop calm waters or troubled waters? There it stands, a tower of strength and comfort, tall and firm and reliable. You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us-and within us.Author Steve Pemberton in his Lake Forest home office Photography by Robin Subar
With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a "human lighthouse," inspiring those around you. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity.
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