About
Mary Ellen Ziliak
Mary Ellen Ziliak is a writer, Amazon best-selling author, international speaker and President and CEO of Next Harvest Books. Roger and Mary Ellen Ziliak have been married over fifty years. She is proud to be called, wife, mother of three, and grandmother of nine. As an international keynote speaker and nurse educator she traveled and presented in 47 states and Europe. Like Fr. Jerry, Mary Ellen lives life well with the belief that, “all living things are connected . . .”
About
Touching the Untouchables
No roads in the jungles of Jhabua meant he followed panther paths on his Harley. With a scarcity of clean drinking water, he dug seventy wells. Out of respect for the earth he constructed sixty kilometers of terraces and planted 10,000 teak trees. While doing all this Rev. Jerome Ziliak, SVD, a simple farm boy from the Midwest, brought Christ to the Aboriginals of Central India.
In Touching the Untouchables, Mary
Ellen Ziliak documents the magnificence in the mundane. Her biography of Father Jerry Ziliak is created from family newsletters,
notes, and journals. The labor of
love fulfills a deathbed promise to her
beloved uncle. He served the Outcasts, the poorest of the poor, for fifty years and died thinking he had the best job on the face of the earth.
