The Journey to Nura

Ronald D. (Ron) Stanislaus was born and raised in Northeast Oklahoma near a little town named Bluejacket. After high school graduation he attended Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Mr. He attended one year at William Jewel College at Liberty, Mo. A few years later he was able to return to Southwest and recieved his BA in 1969. Mr. Stanislaus was a social worker for 33 years, working for teh Missouri Division of Family Services. For 25 of those years he was County Director of the Pike Co. Office at Bowling Green, Mo.

While they were still in College Ron married Genevieve (Jennie) Seaton. The couple was married for 44 years until Jennie died as a result of a stroke in 1996. They had three children: Rose, Patricia and Timothy. Timothy was killed in a car wreck in 1980.

Rob was also a bi-vocational Minister all of his life and pastored four Baptist Churches in Missouri and served as supply preacher or interim Pastor of several others. In addition to other jobs he also did some family and marriage counselling. Ron has been crippled since a knee replacement surgery went bad in 1993. He took an early retirement because of health problems, and has been writing novels since then. This book "The Journey To Nura" is the first one published. Since two other volumes are nearly ready in the "Nura" series, they should be published later this year and next year. Ron is also working on an autobiography and has done some research on the life of Abraham.