National Day of Prayer Breakfast

American Village in Montevallo celebrates the National Day of Prayer with a prayer breakfast from 8-10 am, featuring speaker and author Edie Hand. A book signing will follow, for Edie's newest book "Women of True Grit."

Residing in Birmingham, Alabama, and having worked as an entrepreneur in an advertising agency for 30 years, a media personality, filmmaker, philanthropist, a mom, and speaker personality, Edie has a wealth of skills and life experiences that have made her a force to be reckoned with in the business world. She has authored or collaborated on over twenty-five books. She is a sought-after speaker around the world with decades of keynote speaking experience. 

Women of True Grit — 60 + heart-moving stories of women from all walks of life who navigated with Grit to transform their lives and those of the people around them. GRIT: Great Resilience Is Transformative. A piece of grit inside an oyster transforms over time into a beautiful pearl, and so it is for women of true grit, who persevere through life's irritations and navigate through hard things to turn them into beautiful situations.