Carolyn Huebner Rankin is a certified
appraiser specializing in fine art. Carolyn
has a degree in Biblical Counseling from Light University and is a member of
the American Association of Christian Counselors. She and her husband James travel the country
ministering through gifts of healing and the prophetic word as Rankin Family
Ministries, Inc. They have one daughter
and make their home in San Antonio, Texas.
For contact information please visit www.rankinfamilyministries.org.
On
May 27, 1987, the Times Picayune of New Orleans, Louisiana, bannered this
frontpage headline: Family Violence Adviser is Held in Plot to Have Husband
Killed.
The
woman referred to was then-29-year-old Carolyn Sue Huebner, a highly respected
resident of San Antonio, Texas. As founder
and president of Texas Child Search, Inc., she had located 59 missing children
since its inception in 1982, an even better record than that of the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Much appreciated by law enforcement and called
upon for assistance by child abuse experts all over the country, she was an
outspoken advocate against child pornography, child prostitution and child
abuse. Treasured by the families she had
helped, she had ultimately been nominated for Woman of the Year by the San
Antonio Light newspaper in February, 1987.
How
could such a woman fall from this nationally-recognized position of prestige to
that of a violent criminal in just three months? There had to be more to this tale than met the
eye—but Carolyn Huebner, who had always been good for a terrific quote, wasn’t
talking.
Now,
more than 20 years after the events that had once garnered national attention,
she is breaking her silence. With brutal
honesty and written in narrative form by the woman who walked beside her as
both close friend and colleague during much of her journey, Falling Through Ice
brings us directly into Carolyn’s courageous struggle to come to grips with the
secrets in her past—and the disastrous effects those secrets had on her life.
Falling
Through Ice demonstrates the heights to which the human spirit can soar as it
seeks to emerge from darkness into light, but it never offers ‘the abuse
excuse’ as justification for her criminal acts. Indeed, as terrifying and lonely as it was, Carolyn
Huebner’s incarceration saved her life and gave her the opportunity to discover
the only lost child she had been afraid to find: The child within herself.
