Though My Beginning Was Small

His beginning was small. His future doesn't have to be.

Fifteen-year-old Philip Carter leaves home with everything he owns in a worn backpack. It's the night a social worker removes him from his parents' house.

At his new school, students laugh at his torn jacket and taped shoes. They don't know he is one of the smartest kids in the building, or the fastest runner anyone has seen. They also don't know about the dream he has never said out loud: he wants to become a surgeon.

Then a classmate named Gabriel notices what everyone else missed. Gabriel's family shares a promise Philip can hardly believe:

"Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly." Job 8:7

But believing gets harder. A cruel photograph spreads through school. A friend's betrayal makes him look like a cheater. He is moved to another foster home, and his mother tells him a truth he doesn't want to hear. Philip must decide whether his faith depends on good circumstances or on God's unchanging character.

Though My Beginning Was Small is a hopeful, faith-filled young adult novel about foster care, resilience, and the courage to keep walking toward a God-given dream. Readers will find: