This true story is the story of Amos and Amanda Wenger's oldest daughter Sarah, who grew up in the Old Order Stauffer Mennonite Church and worshipped at the Pike Mennonite Church near Hinkletown, Pa. Sarah was too young to understand how the Great Depression and adverse circumstances had combined to impoverish her family. At age ten, Sarah's young happy life was suddenly shattered. For years, Sarah was cut off from her family and moved from place to place, always longing for a home to belong.
The true story of a conservative Mennonite girl in Ephrata, PA area who felt she did not belong anywhere because she moved to new families often after her mother died. She finally realized that peace was not the absence of trouble but the presence of Jesus. The book takes place during the depression years and war years of WW II.