Danette Crawford Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal with Whitaker House

Don't Quit in the Pit: Power to Turn Any Situation Around! To Release March 2010

A Must Read Book that Gives Hope to Those Who Are Hurting

Contact: Rhonda Boudreaux, 913-780-4035, rdboudreaux1@aol.com

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, Sept. 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- TV personality, speaker and author, Danette Joy Crawford has announced she has signed a publishing deal with Whitaker House to release DON'T QUIT IN THE PIT: Power to Turn Any Situation Around! March 2010.

At some point in our lives we have all faced challenges. Broken and shattered, we find ourselves feeling hopeless. There now is a book that gives hope to the hopeless and is coming at an opportune time. Don't Quit in the Pit, a book so powerful and encompassing the reader will relate personally, giving the kind of hope that will change lives. The message of author, Danette Joy Crawford, will strengthen faith and give encouragement to others, putting broken lives back together.

Don't Quit in the Pit is truly an inspirational book filled with personal accounts of actual life experiences that weave stories of exploitation and the determination to keep one's faith. Throughout the book Crawford shares her spiritual journey that will show others an amazing path to hope and blessings. The book shows strength and bravery that deals with worldly downfalls including addictions, suicide, divorce, and rejection.

"I am honored to be working with Whitaker House and grateful for this tremendous opportunity to encourage others by extending to them a rope of hope, says Crawford. All of us, at one time or another, have been touched by hopelessness and despair. Don't Quit in the Pit will assure you that you have power to turn even the darkest situation around. Don't quit and don't give up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Be encouraged, because tough times don't last but tough people do."

Danette Joy Crawford founded Joy Ministries in 1989 and serves as the organization's president. A graduate of Lee University, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a minor in Bible. She later earned her Master of Arts in counseling at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. She has subsequently served, through Joy Ministries, conferences across the United States and has been privileged to share God's Word in several other countries, including Bolivia, Jamaica, Ukraine, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rico and others.

Crawford's television ministry, Joy in the Morning with Danette Crawford, is syndicated reaching over 165 million homes each week in the U.S. and around the world. She has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, the 700 Club, Living the Life, Paula White Today, TBN, as well as in numerous newspapers and magazine feature articles.

DON'T QUIT IN THE PIT: Power to Turn Any Situation Around! will be in stores nationwide on March 09, 2010. Pre-order yours now at www.joyministriesonline.org.


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