Marigold Hunt, author of A Life of Our Lord for Children, here continues the tale of Jesus and His Church by retelling the exciting events reported in The Acts of the Apostles, St. Luke's account of the dangerous early days of the Church. Focusing on the deeds of Sts. Peter, Paul, and Barnabas, she shows that the Church, which today seems so ancient and established, was born in turbulent times, when merely confessing that you believed in Jesus could get you killed -- and not by rowdies and brigands, but by public officials carrying out their sworn duty. Time and again, the apostles wind up in jail (some for years), and time and again, God frees them by miracles of one sort or another. With Christian hope and great good cheer, they take up once more the task with which Jesus charged them before He ascended into Heaven: "Go forth and teach all nations."