Local author publishes second book in his nineties

LOCAL AUTHOR HAS SECOND BOOK PUBLISHED IN HIS NINETIES

Andrew Mills had his second book published last December. The title is Reporting for Duty: My Urgency for Justice and Peace published by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers in Eugene, Oregon.

This memoir describes actions the author has taken in his life to promote justice and peace with respect to America’s foreign and domestic policies. But it is more than a memoir; it also includes background for, and analysis of, the peace and justice issues involved. The author says: “I love my country deeply, and so I want it to live up to its promise of brotherhood, truth, and fairness, and to commit to being a peaceful neighbor among the community of nations.”

This is the second memoir the author has published, both when he was in his nineties. His first book, Home in India, described the development work he did in a poor village area in Madurai District of South India in the 1950s and 1960s under the Church of South India and the United Church Board for World Ministries. The memoir describes the several organizational methods he used to help poor villagers, all of whom turned out to be Dalits, the outcasts of South Indian society. Much of the memoir is devoted to telling the stories of his friends and colleagues in India who inspired him. They are the primary reason why he was truly at home in India and why he wrote Home in India.

As detailed in Reporting for Duty, the author’s life has been one adventure after another as he undertook actions for justice and peace—for example, when he participated in part of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 and when he was in a peace group that was kidnapped by the Contras in Costa Rica in 1985. The book emphasizes that peace work doesn’t stop with peace conferences or praying for peace. It is facing the often official distortions that justify wars and finding the most effective ways to bring out the truth and make peace. His primary intent in writing the book is to encourage people everywhere to invest themselves in justice and peace initiatives in their own countries.

The book’s available on Amazon either as a paperback or a kindle version or directly from the publisher. His website tells more about both books and how to order them: https://www.andrewmillsbooks.com

Andrew Mills is a retired groundwater hydrologist/programmer. He has worked for several environmental engineering firms as a groundwater hydrologist from 1972 to 2011. From 2014 to 2019 he served as a part-time computer programmer.

He lives with his wife in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Together they have six children, 17 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. He turned 90 in October 2020, four months after he started writing the first book.

He views the world as belonging to the Lord and that each of us has been put on earth to care for one another and to be good stewards of our planet. Because of this, much of his spare time has been filled with activities aimed at lifting up vulnerable people and trying to prevent or stop violence and wars against all people.

He has led and participated in several peace organizations in the United States, including the Davis [California] Vietnam Peace Committee, the New Jersey Peace Mission and the Mid-Atlantic region of Witness for Peace (WFPMA).