Rags to Rabbi

By Carmen Welker

"Rags to Rabbi" is Messianic Rabbi Carmen Welker's own story. Born in post-war Germany, she was given away at birth and lived with a poor but loving foster family until age 9 when she was ripped from her foster home by her natural mother and her new husband (a raving pedophile) and taken to the United States where she was mentally and sexually abused throughout her childhood and moved from place to place. Seeking to escape her abusive past, Carmen joined the U.S. Army at age 18 where she ultimately made it to the top in the field of journalism. Her personal life, however - thanks to the "baggage" that tends to follow us around - never got off the ground. She was 44 years old before she discovered there was deliverance from the past - and it came from a place she least expected....