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All proceeds from the sale of this book, after expenses, will go to the Clifton L. and Louise Ganus Endowed Scholarship Fund at Harding University.
ISBN: 9781662804632
ISBN-10: 1662804636
Publisher: Xulon Press
Publication Date: January 24th, 2021
Pages: 360
Cliff Ganus was devoted to his faith, to his wife and family, and to Harding University, the school that helped to shape him and that he in turn helped to shape as its president. His was a life of extraordinary scope that involved traveling through 117 countries, four seven-hundred-mile Mississippi River trips in a small boat, conversations with world leaders, annual fishing trips to Alaska, lecturing in universities in various countries, climbing the Great Pyramid, preaching, and mission work. Encouraged late in his life to write his memoirs, he tells of some of his experiences in an account that is informative, humorous, and inspirational.
In the academic world he was a scholar, a popular teacher and lecturer, and a university president and chancellor.
As a church leader he was an outstanding preacher, an elder for the College Church of Christ for fifty-four years, a designated representative of the Churches of Christ to three countries, committed to the spread of the gospel in this country and abroad, and a founder and director of a Christian academy in Africa.
As an adventurer he rode the Trans-Siberian Railway, climbed the Great Pyramid, visited 117 countries, made four seven-hundred-mile Mississippi River trips in a small boat, loved athletics as a participant and supporter, took friends and family fishing in Alaska every August, and never stopped exploring and learning.
He was a devoted and admired patriarch to his family, and he kept a list of over 500 friends whom he telephoned every year on their birthday.
This is his story of his life. For those who knew him it is a reminder of the joy and commitment which characterized him. Those in the Harding University and Church of Christ fellowships will recognize many of the people who play a role in the narrative.
For those who did not know him, this is an introduction to a man who was committed to God, family, and service, told with a dash of adventure and humor in his own words — an ordinary accounting of an extraordinary life.
I decided that I wanted to travel more deeply into the Gobi Desert, so I again boarded a Russian plane, which didn’t have much in the way of safety measures; I observed workers smoking and refueling the plane at the same time. The plane didn’t have many people on board, fewer than a dozen of us, so they used the unoccupied seats for cargo. The airplane crew didn’t buckle down the boxes; they were just loose. The plane landed in the desert where there was no airstrip, just pure sand. Then it flew off with the promise to come back and pick us up in a few days.