Solo sailor and owner of a Hans Christian yacht, Glynda Joy Parfitt, has been sailing between Sydney and Port Douglas since 2011.
Glynda won First Prize for a short story when she was 15 and along with writing poetry and songs, she began writing her memoir in 1998.
While writing at anchor off Fraser Island, Glynda completed Part One, which is about her slightly eccentric childhood as a Seventh Day Adventist pastor’s daughter, and the 22 years spent with well-known Healing Evangelist John Mellor, who sadly passed away last year, two months after a diagnosis of Brain Cancer.
Her memoir, her first published book – My Memoir Part One: The Pastor’s Wife – is one in a series of three.
She is well known in the East Coast sailing community as Glynda Boatgirl.
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This is the story Joy Mellor, the first wife of Healing Evangelist John Mellor, and mother of his children.
You will be engaged from start to finish as she takes you through her quirky, strict, but happy childhood as a Seventh Day Adventist pastor’s daughter in Rural New South Wales Australia, before moving to Queensland as a teen.
You will laugh and cry through the 22 years she spent with John, in Queensland, and ultimately as Christian Outreach Centre pastors in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Her stories of happy and hard times, miracles, cyclones, floods, fires and snakes, are easy to read, and will introduce you to the woman who is now widely known as Glynda Boatgirl, solo sailor of Australia’s East Coast.