Contact: Josiah Williams, Executive Marketing Director, WinePress Publishing, 360-802-9758, josiah@winepresspublishing.com  

ENUMCLAW, Wash., March 31, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- For the past fifty years Jerry Charles Crossley has dealt with people in crisis. They include those stricken with illness, bereaved of loved ones, and reeling from broken relationships.

He has comforted the depressed, the sick at heart, and those struggling with their faith. These opportunities came to him as church pastor and as chaplain serving two prisons, a fire department, hospital, and Civil Air Patrol. He currently serves as full-time chaplain at a United Methodist retirement community in Ocean City, New Jersey.

In looking for ways to provide genuine help, Crossley discovered what it is that people genuinely need -- a way to change their perspective in order to see the power of a compassionate God at work in their lives. "When we react only to what we see," he says, "we miss what we cannot see. We overlook God's presence." Now he has collected the insights he has discovered in God’s Word and put them into a new book, "The Seen and the Unseen."

"Changing our perspective allows us to see God’s provision, recognize pathways to blessing, and experience the good that God can bring out of bad situations," he says.

The book's twenty-six chapters make it perfect for teaching as Sunday school or Bible study curriculum for two quarters. Both students and readers will learn the counterintuitive perspective that lets them see their compassionate God at every corner of life.

Rev. Crossley, an ordained United Methodist minister, earned his Master of Divinity degree from Drew University School of Theology. He and his wife, Julie, have been married for over fifty years. They minister together through gospel magic presentations and "Grandparents and Me" summer camps for children. The Crossleys live in Cape May Court House on the New Jersey shore where they enjoy gardening and visits from their two grown children and four grandchildren.

For more information, to request a review copy of "The Seen and the Unseen," or to schedule an interview, please contact Josiah Williams by phone at 360-802-9758, by email at josiah@winepresspublishing.com, or by fax at 360-802-9992. To purchase a copy of this book, visit www.winepressbooks.com or call 877-421-7323.