Jackie Deems
2024
Jackie has been writing most of her life and her interesting life journey only enhances her strong storytelling voice lending authenticity, richness and depth to her writings.
Jackie and her husband live in a small Ohio village where she writes and cares for her beloved rescue animals on their no-kill farm. All royalties from her books help support the animals on their farm.
Jackie’s lifelong love for God, writing, and hurting animals and people culminate in her books: In Green Pastures, Surviving the Storm and Please! Please! Rescue! Me! She is also an amateur photographer, and her photographs appear throughout her books.
In Green Pastures
See our extraordinary God in the ordinary of your everyday life as you view Him through the eyes of a modern day Shepherdess. Nurture your relationship with the Good Shepherd as you immerse yourself in a thought provoking weekly devotional. Focus your mind and spirit on those things God wants you to know about Him and yourself. Still your heart as you sit in His abundant green pastures. Hear His voice in the midst of the noise going on around you. Drink deeply from the still, cool waters only He can provide your soul.
Please! Please! Rescue! Me!
Please! Please! Rescue! Me! introduces you to unforgettable, courageous, loving souls wrapped in fur. A must-read book for all animal lovers that also helps animal rescue too. All royalties from book sales help support the precious animals living on the author's no-kill farm.
Please! Please! Rescue! Me! is filled with heartwarming real-life cat and dog rescue stories and also features pictures of each rescued animal.
Written in a way that invites you into the everyday life of a rescuer and her precious rescues, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal what real-life rescue truly looks and feels like. It also serves as an example of what one determined person can do to truly make a difference and positively impact the lives of literally hundreds of others.
Surviving the Storm
What do I do when a loved one dies? Will I ever get better? How do I go on living? Do I even want to? The author asked these and many other questions after the death of her son and other loved ones.
Jackie has been a bereavement facilitator for 25 years and has also been writing about grief for the last 30 years. This book is a compilation of some of those writings. Written by a griever for grievers, Surviving The Storm is presented in an easy to read format that paints a personal and real picture of loss, grief, recovery and hope.