Publisher's Synopsis
Tommy Andrew Grant, alias "The Message Man," is a topnotch woodworker. His techniques in creating signs and other wooden products are collectively called "The Tommy Touch." Most people in and around Snowdrift Acres, Snowy County, USA, realize that The Tommy Touch is much more than measuring, carving, woodburning, and painting. It is touching lives for Jesus Christ and bringing out the good and best in them.No one comes to realize and appreciate the beauty and significance of this touch more than Terry Lee, the woodworker's only son. Frustrated at his inability to discover and develop his hidden talent, he listens to his father's wise advice, which is recorded on the boards of a special Christmas sled.The story revolves around the lives of five friends: the twins, Terry Lee and Rebecca Lynn Grant, Monica Sue Morton, Ginger Ann Brown, and Johnny Ray Shaw.Held together by a common love, they live and share an energetic, unstoppable, Christian faith based on God's enduring truths.Except for one big step into the past, the story takes place from March 20, 1957 (the first day of spring), until December 25, 1968.
