I’m excited about these new books! They’re devotional thoughts taken from the mighty works of God all over the world: true accounts in the Hidden Heroes Missionary Stories books and the Potter’s Wheel biographies. Each devotional, of course, has a…
I’m excited about these new books! They’re devotional thoughts taken from the mighty works of God all over the world: true accounts in the Hidden Heroes Missionary Stories books and the Potter’s Wheel biographies. Each devotional, of course, has a…
Living Water in the Desert: True Stories of God at Work in Iran I’m especially excited about this one, because God is doing great things in the land of Iran, so many of them just in the last twenty years.…
This inspiring woman has a chapter in the book Witness Men: True Stories of God at Work in Papua, Indonesia. Seems like she deserves a full biography. Stricken with polio when she was four, Elinor still went as a missionary to…
Almost a year ago I received a letter from a German missionary in Kenya who is raising her four boys there with her Kenyan husband while they train future missionaries. She had read With Two Hands, the first Hidden Heroes…
Last summer a beautiful Mongolian friend stayed with us for a week. Her name is Munkhtuya Dashtseden, but everyone calls her Mugi. (She played a Native American in a short documentary film my husband worked on recently, but that’s a…
The Potter’s Wheel biography that I was hoping would be finished in December is finally here, only two months late! An easy read for children ages 7-10, and also ideal for adults whose eyesight is failing, because of the extra…
As of today, Hidden Heroes #5, which came out in the States last November, has received seven five-star reviews on Amazon U.S. (and a few more on Amazon U.K.). Here are snippets from them! We loved this book just as…
This chapter is a sample of what the stories are like in Hidden Heroes #6, Living Water in the Desert: True Stories of God at Work in Iran. It is an original chapter, based on the book The House I Left Behind,…
My project for December has been to finish writing and to publish a biography of Joy Ridderhof. (The research was done while six children and young people were living with us for a couple of weeks, and the writing began…
Chapter 17 Living Water in the Desert In 1979 when the Ayatollah came into power in Iran, there were about four hundred Muslim-background believers (MBBs) in the country. Later, even the president of Iran himself admitted that about four hundred…