Bishop In The Muddy Boots

In 1968, at forty-three, Paul Locke A. Granadosin was elected bishop of a fractured Philippine church. Four years later, left without a second bishop to share the load, he became its only bishop, alone at the helm of an entire archipelago that stretched from Aparri to Zamboanga.Bishop in the Muddy Boots is his autobiography. The story of a boy born in Los Angeles in 1925 and raised among the sugarcane plantations of Hawaii, who returned to the Philippines as a boy after his father's death and came of age as war closed in, then never stopped moving: through foxholes, seminary halls, Martial Law, and the rubble of the 1990 earthquake, in service of a faith that outgrew every obstacle in its path.Told in his own words and completed by his granddaughter after his passing, this is a story of quiet endurance: a boy from a sugar plantation town who came to stand as bishop over half a million United Methodists, without ever losing the heart of the boy from Hawaii.