Table of Contents
Departure Day: Preflight Checklist 9
Day 1 Beyond Our Control 17
Day 2 "I Used to Beat Him" 23
Day 3 "We Have Everything We Need" 29
Day 4 "I Almost Drown Taking a Shower" 35
Day 5 "Which One of Those Is Bad?" 41
Day 6 "That Hope Kept Me Strong" 49
Day 7 Driven to Be the Best-Part 1 55
Day 8 Driven to Be the Best-Part 2 61
Day 9 Persecution Is the Expectation, Not an Accident 69
Day 10 "We Prayed a Long Time …" 75
Day 11 Fear in Eritrea 83
Day 12 "If God Can Use Us" 89
Day 13 Patterns of Holiness 95
Day 14 Bullet Holes in Your Coat 103
Day 15 A Testimony in the Ground 109
Day 16 "That Was a Wonderful Time" 115
Day 17 "He Just Loves God More Now" 121
Day 18 Joy in God's Plan 129
Day 19 The Prison Bible 135
Day 20 "We All Know" 141
Day 21 A Double Portion-Part 1 149
Day 22 A Double Portion-Part 2 155
Day 23 A Double Portion-Part 3 161
Day 24 A Double Portion-Part 4 169
Day 25 A Double Portion-Part 5 173
Day 26 "If The Whole World Believed" 179
Day 21 A Funeral Sermon 185
Day 28 "Use That for Toilet Paper" 191
Day 29 "No One Will Stop the Gospel" 197
Day 30 "In the Steps of the Apostles" 203
Day 31 "I Will Give You Rest"-Afrooz, Part 1 209
Day 32 Prove You Are Christians-Afrooz, Part 2 215
Day 33 "Even the Quran Says Jesus Is Coming" 221
Day 34 Tortured Hands-Part 1 227
Day 35 Tortured Hands-Part 2 233
Day 36 One Sermon in Laos 239
Day 37 "We Miss Him So Much" 245
Day 38 Sleeping in the Cemetery 251
Day 39 Praying for Her Torturer 257
Day 40 Leaving a Legacy 263
Acknowledgments 268
Notes 271