Author Spotlight

Idalah Womack

I started writing when I worked for the federal government when I was eighteen years old. After I purchased a car, a co-worker who wrote for a city newspaper asked me to chauffeur her. Eagerly, I accepted her offer. She asked me to proofread some of the manuscripts sent to her. A couple of years later, I was a college student, and I realized the more I wrote, the better I wrote. I had an internship with a Quaker woman who told me, "In my line of work, often, seeing the outcome of my intervention would never happen, you need a hobby you can see come to completion." I started writing poetry. Thereafter, I was employed as a school social worker, and by retirement, I had interacted with more than 1,400 families. Their numerous life experiences inspired the book, To The Utmost Jesus Saves, which depicts how clients and I lived through many life-threatening situations.

During the second year of a college scholarship, the support was cut. I took one of about fifteen on-campus jobs. For two years, I was hired as a phone operator replacing two men. Numerous calls were made by teens seeking college help. Although I referred them to the financial aid and admissions office, I wanted to do more. I remember one day pounding on the table at the end of the call room while asking God to help me help the children. (Tears come to my eyes as I tell this.) While dismayed, I one day walked through the campus library and noticed grants lists on a bulletin board. I started searching numerous sources at many locations. After writing 128 letters, I received a grant with a list of twenty-five more. It inspired the first edition of free college money. Many books promise to give the reader helpful how-to and reference information. Often authors speak in generalities. I share factual and lived experiences.

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About the Author: Idalah Womack has written over 600 poems and plans to distill them into a heartfelt collection. Her publications include 1TrueCollege Money Since 1978, 7th Edition and To The Utmost… Jesus Saves: A Book of Testimony, God's Miraculous Blessings and Help for Us.