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"Author Kathy Isaac is a tremendously gifted story teller. In Don't Tell, Isaac reveals the dark and brutal story of paternal sexual abuse a little girl from Chicago lived in real-time, but was sworn never to tell! You will have an eye witness account of the miraculous difference Jesus made in driving out the darkness and despair and utterly transforming young Joanie Brusseau by lavishing her with redemption, hope, healing, purpose and a place of belonging in the family of God."
"Kathy captured me and brought me into the life of Joanie. It is a story of Heartbreak, Hope and Healing as she finds her way home. This is such an emotional read. I wonder how many more Joanie's we may sit beside? Grab a kleenex "
Bonnie Gallant
Co-founder of Agora Network Ministries
Co-author of The Beautiful Strokes of God
Toni Horras
Area Coordinator at Safe Families for Children
"Joanie Brusseau's life story is nothing short of an amazing account of God's love and faithfulness. Her younger years were fraught with tragedy and misery as her earthly family let her down time after time. But then her wonderful Heavenly Parent stepped in with immense healing! Her post salvation days are more exciting in goodness than her pre-salvation were in sadness! He supplied deep friendships and fascinating adventures.
To Him be the Glory!"
Arthur Jackson
Author Our Daily Bread
PastorServe, Assistant Regional Director Midwest Region
Roughly 20 years ago Joanie Brusseau eagerly and enjoyably entered the Judson Baptist Church(Oak Park, IL) family where I served as pastor (1994-2007). Reading Joanie’s gripping story—Don’t Tell: Finding Home After Family Betrayal—helped me to see that JBC was just the next in a series of steps in Joanie’s amazing journey. Her life and testimony are a tribute to how God powerfully uses people (knowingly and unknowingly) as His instruments of healing where injury and pain have been self-inflicted or weaponized by others.
Arthur Jackson
Author Our Daily Bread
PastorServe, Assistant Regional Director Midwest Region
Joanie’s “need-to-be-told” story needs a wide reading. It can be a beacon of light and life to those who have been abused, traumatized and left to live with such horrors. Furthermore, while Joanie’s experiences are foreign to many, Joanie’s invitation into her story has the potential to birth compassion and empathy for those in our families, communities and churches who feel the weight of betrayal and abuse. My prayer is that the Lord will use Joanie’s story to help us reexamine our attitudes and actions toward hurting people and to open our hearts, lives, homes and churches for the healing of the broken.
Dr. Mike Sherbino
Mike Sherbino Ministries
Pastor Northend Church
What sets Don’t Tell apart from many others is the way it draws you in. You know you’re going to hear what you don’t want to, but like a magnet pulling you too close for comfort, author Kathy Isaac pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden mystery. Family betrayal, the horror of incest and emotional agony far to reminiscent of the evening news keeps you reading while looking for a thread of hope. One wonders – is there hope for Joanie – will she ever recover from her downward spiral?
Dr. Mike Sherbino
Mike Sherbino Ministries
Pastor Northend Church
As the narrative unfolds something inside the reader seems to call out; “this can’t be true.” Tell me it’s only a story. Isaac unravels the plot like a driver swerving down a mountain road - causing your heart to pound and your mind to race. Why? Because Joanie’s life becomes a mirror of too many stories that perhaps have been hidden deep in your own soul or that of a friend.
Dr. Mike Sherbino
Mike Sherbino Ministries
Pastor Northend Church
Don’t Tell is more than a story – it’s a true story! And as that story unfolds it seems to only get darker until one thinks the last flicker of hope will be snuffed out. But the power of Don’t Tell comes alive with the redemptive rescue of a woman. A woman who is on the precipice and experiences the miracle of Divine intervention.
Read it, enjoy it and soak in it because Don’t Tell is a ‘must read.’ It’s the book you will be telling your friends to read this year.