Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a bold and heartwarming story of family and faith about a man who has succeeded as a reverend and failed as a father.
Reverend Simon Jackson has always felt destined to lead and heâs done a good job of it, transforming his small Houston church into one of the most respected and renowned in the region. But while the good Reverendâs been busy tending his flock, his familyâs gone astray. His nineteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, gives new meaning to âbaby mama drama.â Crazy in love with her sonâs father, she's wreaking havoc on the manâs life, even though he's about to marry another woman. David, Simon'âs oldest at twenty-seven, has been spiraling downward ever since a knee injury ended a promising football career. These days heâs seeking solace in drugsâeven feeding his habit by stealing church offerings. Blessedly, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan, a college graduate and the apple of Simonâs eye, is poised to take his fatherâs side as associate pastorâor so everyone thinks. Loretta has been a devoted wife to Simon, but sheâs beginning to realize that enabling him to give more to the church than to his children was her biggest mistake. As things begin to fall apart and secrets are revealed, will Loretta be able to help her husband reunite their tattered family before itâs too late?
Let the Church Say Amen is a powerful journey through one familyâs trialsâand a remarkable story of reconciliation and love. When things are down to the wire will Reverend Simon Jackson choose to fight for his family or the congregation?