Duggar Jana - Growing up Duggar: its all about relationships

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Jana is twenty-four and the eldest of the Duggar daughters. She leads young ladies in a ministry called Journey to the Heart. Three years ago she obtained her First Responders certification and volunteered on the local fire department for a year and a half. She also has had the opportunity to attend births as a labor coach and stays busy managing the family mailroom!

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Jill is twenty-two and currently a student midwife. You will oftentimes find her counseling girls via phone, text, in person, or email. She enjoys playing harp and violin, and keeps busy studying Spanish, checking up on pregnant mommas, volunteering on the fire department, and helping out on political campaigns.

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Jessa (twenty-one) is talented at playing several instruments. She can hear something once, and the next thing you know shes pickin it out on an instrument. In her spare time she enjoys reading books, memorizing scripture, discipling friends, and spending time with her family. Jessa has the gift of organization and loves using it!

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At twenty, Jinger is always full of energy, that is, when she has a cup of coffee in her hand! She has become quite the photographer and likes picking up tips from professional crews that often come through. Jinger loves jammin in the living room, playing duets on the piano with Jana. She has a passion to reach the world for Christ, so she often passes out gospel tracts in her many shopping outings!

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Copyright 2014 by Jana Duggar, Jill Duggar, Jessa Duggar, and Jinger Duggar

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Edited by Sue Ann Jones

Additional writing contributed by Charlie Richards and David Waller

Interior design by Davina Mock-Maniscalco

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Jacket photographs Scott Enlow

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Duggar, Jana.

Growing Up Duggar : its all about relationships / Jana Duggar, Jill Duggar, Jessa Duggar, Jinger Duggar.

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1. Duggar, Jana. 2. Duggar, Jill. 3. Duggar, Jessa. 4. Duggar, Jinger. 5. Duggar, Jim BobFamily. 6. DaughtersUnited StatesBiography. 7. FamiliesUnited StatesCase studies. 8. Family sizeUnited StatesCase studies. 9. Christian lifeUnited StatesCase studies. I. Duggar, Jill. II. Duggar, Jessa. III. Duggar, Jinger. IV. Title.

HQ536. D852014

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2013036030

ISBN 978-1-4516-7916-8

ISBN 978-1-4516-7918-2 (ebook)

W E ARE SO GRATEFUL to all of the following people who have invested their time and energy to make this book a reality:

Charlie Richards, who asked us older girls a lot of questions one day about how our parents have raised us, then insisted that we document our answers in a book to help young ladies and their parents. Charlie also spent a lot of time with us helping us type up and articulate our life experiences to illustrate the principles we live by.

Priscilla and David Waller (Anna Duggars sister and brother-in-law), who were instrumental in interjecting illustrations and principles that would connect young ladies with practical tips they could apply to everyday life. Anna and Priscilla grew up helping their dad with a prison ministry and have hearts to help young people make right decisions in their lives.

Philis Boultinghouse, with Simon and Schuster, who encouraged us along the way, helped in editing, and was so patient with us throughout this two-year project.

Eileen ONeill, president of Discovery Communications, who found our family in a Parents magazine article ten years ago and asked Bill Hayes and Kirk Streb with Figure 8 Films to contact us about filming our first one-hour documentary. You have enabled us to share our story and Gods love with people around the world!

Sue Ann Jones, who received our manuscript while it was still pretty rough and helped us miraculously transform it into what it is. Thank you for your months worth of work. You did a great job!

Leslie Nunn Reed, our book agent, who contacted our parents several years ago and encouraged them to write down their life story in book form. Because of your vision for our family to share the Bible principles we live by, we have received thousands of e-mails from individuals saying their marriages have been strengthened, relationships with their children have improved, and many families have developed more of a spiritual focus in life.

And to our parents, we love you more than words can say. Thank you for all the sacrifices you have made to have us, provide for us, and point us to a relationship with Jesus. You have guided us through many seas of emotion, encouraging us to trust the Lord no matter what. You are the best parents in the world! You have shown each one of us nineteen kids special love and attention and have spent more time with us individually than many parents do with only one or two children. Thank you for modeling Christ-like living to us and for opening the doors of our home to be a testimony to the world!