Book excerpt: Don Covington spent twenty-five years as a teacher and school administrator in Guam, Afghanistan, Arizona, and Missouri, and has served as the pastor of churches in Guam, Arizona, Nevada and Missouri. He has been a law enforcement chaplain since 1993, and a reserve deputy sheriff since 1999. He is endorsed as a Senior Chaplain by the International Conference of Police Chaplains. He currently works as a Hospice and hospital chaplain. Don Covington is married and has five children and twelve grandchildren. He has written two other books The Lonely Soldier and Old Testament Stories for the Kids and Grandkids.