In Spite of Me

About the Book
Some stories of ministry are told from the mountaintop. This one begins in the valley — and it stays honest about how long the climb back took.
In In Spite of Me, Pastor Eldred Sawyer opens up about the unexpected roads, quiet failures, and hard-won truths of nearly four decades in Christian ministry. This is not a success memoir. It is a grace memoir — the kind that makes you believe not in the man telling it, but in the God who kept showing up anyway.
Readers who have ever questioned whether God could still use them — in spite of their history, their choices, or their doubts — will find in these pages both a mirror and a compass.
A Word from Eldred
“I didn’t write this book because I had it figured out. I wrote it because I finally stopped pretending I did — and discovered that was the moment God started using me in ways I never saw coming. If you’ve been waiting to have it all together before you step forward, this book is my invitation to stop waiting.”
— Eldred Sawyer
