Travel on a wonderful journey with skating author, figure skating competitor, skating coach, and skating parent, Jo Ann Schneider Farris. Learn everything and anything about skating as you travel through Jo Ann's skating life. In addition to reading Jo Ann's story, purchasers of the digital edition of MY SKATING LIFE can also enjoy embedded links, articles, photos, and videos that will take the reader on more wonderful skating adventures. The photos in the digital edition are in color and can be enlarged and enjoyed. This edition of MY SKATING LIFE is edited by Phil Corey and includes a thorough index put together by indexing professional Ellen Phillips. Happy Skating!

Travel on a wonderful journey with skating author, figure skating competitor, skating coach, and skating parent, Jo Ann Schneider Farris. Learn everything and anything about skating as you travel through Jo Ann's skating life. In addition to reading Jo Ann's story, purchasers of the digital edition of MY SKATING LIFE can also enjoy embedded links, articles, photos, and videos that will take the reader on more wonderful skating adventures. The photos in the digital edition are in color and can be enlarged and enjoyed. This edition of MY SKATING LIFE is edited by Phil Corey and includes a thorough index put together by indexing professional Ellen Phillips. Happy Skating!

Well educated, Jewish, and an ambitious competitive figure skater, Jo Ann Schneider Farris did not fit the profile of a convert to fundamentalist Christianity. Yet within sixteen months of being approached by evangelical Christians as a senior at Colorado College, she had changed religions, married a Christian, taught full-time at a Pentecostal Christian school and lived in a Christian commune. A lifetime of prayer meetings and bible studies seemed inevitable.

Years later she joined the ranks of the Christians she admired the most, Jews for Jesus missionaries. Not long afterward, her life suddenly seemed to shatter as she was dismissed as a missionary. Through this painful experience she learned she could lose her religion and get a life at the same time.