April Yamasaki

April Yamasaki is a pastor, editor, author, and spiritual formation mentor. She currently serves as resident author with a liturgical worship community, edits a daily devotional magazine, writes online and in print publications, and often speaks in churches and other settings. She is the author of This Ordinary, Extraordinary Life; Four Gifts; Sacred Pauses; and other books on living with faith and hope. Her latest book is Hope Beyond Our Sorrows: Learning to Live with Life-Changing Loss (releasing June 2025). Her websites are AprilYamasaki.com where she shares faith and hope in all the joys, challenges, and ordinary moments of daily life, and WhenYouWorkfortheChurch.com with a focus on ministry in churches and other Christian organizations. On Substack, she reflects on writing as a spiritual journey at Writing and Other Acts of Faith. website: https://AprilYamasaki.com

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