Meet Tammy Fernando
With a passion for faith-filled storytelling, Tammy Fernando shows kids that God is always with them.
Meet Tammy Fernando –
Tammy Fernando's heartfelt debut: inspiring young hearts for God
Sri Lankan born, Tammy Fernando is the debut author of ‘A Prayer from the Heart’: a Christian, fiction story for young children which helps them process their desires in the light of God.
For a long time, Tammy has wanted to speak to children about God, to show them how loving He is and how He ultimately wants them to share in the never ending, Heavenly party.
Though Tammy was trying hard to make this happen by offering schools ‘The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd’, God had other plans.
Meet Tammy Fernando –
Tammy Fernando's heartfelt debut: inspiring young hearts for God
Sri Lankan born, Tammy Fernando is the debut author of ‘A Prayer from the Heart’: a Christian, fiction story for young children which helps them process their desires in the light of God.
For a long time, Tammy has wanted to speak to children about God, to show them how loving He is and how He ultimately wants them to share in the never ending, Heavenly party.
Though Tammy was trying hard to make this happen by offering schools ‘The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd’, God had other plans.
Meet Tammy Fernando –
Tammy Fernando's heartfelt debut: inspiring young hearts for God
Sri Lankan born, Tammy Fernando is the debut author of ‘A Prayer from the Heart’: a Christian, fiction story for young children which helps them process their desires in the light of God.
For a long time, Tammy has wanted to speak to children about God, to show them how loving He is and how He ultimately wants them to share in the never ending, Heavenly party.
Tammy had plans to help children fall in love with God through offering a system of catechesis called The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to primary schools. She worked on becoming proficient in delivering this catechesis and also completed a Masters degree in Catholic Pastoral and Educational Studies at Maryvale Institute in Birmingham. The stage seemed set. She approached over 200 schools in the UK with this innovative idea, only to find that no one was interested. She just couldn't understand why the doors had closed since she had felt so sure that God wanted her to follow this path. But it was only some years later that everything started to make sense and fall into place.
Tammy’s career as a children’s author took her by surprise when, in 2015, the Lord nudged her to write! With insights from her experience as a nursery teacher, midwife, nurse and family story teller, Tammy wrote her first story about a child’s deepest desire.
Chris wants a forever-friend to play with. And his persevering prayers are eventually answered in his new friend, Shani.
In her story, it’s easy to see that God overarches its entirety, as the Holy Trinity turns up in every illustration.
With this unique offering, what Tammy wants to tell all children is this: “that with God, everything will be alright.”
Tammy’s career as a children’s author took her by surprise when, in 2015, the Lord nudged her to write! With insights from her experience as a nursery teacher, midwife, nurse and family story teller, Tammy wrote her first story about a child’s deepest desire.
Chris wants a forever-friend to play with. And his persevering prayers are eventually answered in his new friend, Shani.
In her story, it’s easy to see that God overarches its entirety, as the Holy Trinity turns up in every illustration.
With this unique offering, what Tammy wants to tell all children is this: “that with God, everything will be alright.”
One afternoon in May 2015, God nudged Tammy to write a story. This was quite a surprise to her as she had never had an interest in writing. As she sat down and started to write, a story poured out from her heart. This was to be the first draft of her debut storybook called 'A Prayer from the Heart'. She used the memories of her family for the storyline and all her life experiences including those from The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to produce a story that she hoped would find a place in children's hearts.
In all Tammy's stories it's easy to see that God overarches the storyline, as He does our lives. She helps children see this through the depiction of The Holy Trinity in every illustration!
With this unique offering through her books, Tammy's own desire to bring God to the hearts of children had come true...just not in the way that she had envisaged! She now hopes that as children listen to her stories, they will see: '"that with God, everything will be alright". Knowing that God 'has their back' and that He has really good plans for them will cause them to run into His arms...and to start a beautiful relationship with Him.
Journey of Faith –
A Heartfelt Journey: The Making of A Prayer from the Heart
In this video, Tammy Fernando talks with Pascal Mary Rakowicz about her children’s book,
A Prayer from the Heart, and the creative journey that brought it to life. She shares how her background in nursing, midwifery, and Montessori teaching shaped her storytelling, and how faith guided every step of the writing process. From drawing inspiration in a moment of illness, to blending personal family experiences into the book, Tammy’s story reveals the heartfelt meaning behind her work and her hope for young readers everywhere.
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