{"id":8470,"date":"2023-05-25T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=8470"},"modified":"2023-09-02T03:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:27:23","slug":"tessa-afshar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=8470","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Afshar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Tessa Afshar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-683x1024.jpg);background-position:50% 14.000000000000002%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8471 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TESSA_A_FULL-219-3109639154-O-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-tessa-afshar wp-block-embed-tessa-afshar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"931hvyh6Ut\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tessaafshar.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; TESSA AFSHAR\" src=\"https:\/\/tessaafshar.com\/embed\/#?secret=jmzGpGHqQ5#?secret=931hvyh6Ut\" data-secret=\"931hvyh6Ut\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-tessa-afshar wp-block-embed-tessa-afshar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ywpvLpJQEP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tessaafshar.com\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Contact&#8221; &#8212; TESSA AFSHAR\" src=\"https:\/\/tessaafshar.com\/contact\/embed\/#?secret=zztLNfTbPY#?secret=ywpvLpJQEP\" data-secret=\"ywpvLpJQEP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa Afshar\u2019s books have been translated into 11 languages, and been on Publishers Weekly and CBA best-selling lists. Her novel, Pearl in the Sand, based on the life of Rahab, was presented with the ECPA\u2019s Bronze Milestone Sales Award. The Way Home, God\u2019s Invitation to New Beginnings, is the winner of the Christian Book Award in the Bible Study category. Tessa\u2019s novels have won a number of awards including the Christy and INSPY. Land of Silence was chosen as one of top five Christian fiction titles of the year by Library Journal. Tessa was born in the Middle East and lived there the first fourteen years of her life before attending boarding school for girls in England. She fell in love with Jesus after moving to the United States. Tessa and her husband live in New England where they tend their mediocre garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Afshar BIO: Tessa Afshar\u2019s books have been translated into 11 languages, and been on Publishers Weekly and CBA best-selling lists. Her novel, Pearl in the Sand, based on the life of Rahab, was presented with the ECPA\u2019s Bronze Milestone Sales Award. 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