Courier Publishing has partnered with Connie Maxwell Children’s Home to reprint “Someone Held My Hand,” a collection of uplifting stories by alumni and friends of the 125-year-old Baptist-affiliated institution based in Greenwood.

With the latest reprint, more than 17,000 copies of the book have been published.

Subtitled “A Series of God Stories,” the book was compiled by Gene Bishop, who grew up at the children’s home and served on the Connie Maxwell board of trustees, and Tony Atkinson, Connie Maxwell’s director of church relations.

Bishop had previously published another book, “If Being Raised in an Orphanage Was So Bad, Why Did I Like It So Good,” when he struck up a friendship with Atkinson, whom he describes as someone who “loves to tell stories and has the gift of knowing and seeing when God has intervened” in other people’s lives.

The two men talked to several other people whose stories “have a common thread in that they show a love for Connie Maxwell,” Bishop said, and the idea for “Someone Held My Hand” was born.

Connie Maxwell offers the book for free but requests $5 to cover shipping and handling for each book ordered. All proceeds and donations generated by the book go directly to the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home operating fund.

To order the book, contact Shelby Brown at 800-868-2624 or sbrown@conniemaxwell.com.

Atkinson is available to speak about the book and about Connie Maxwell Children’s Home to churches, civic clubs, missions groups and other organizations. He can be reached at 843-598-0575.