Nearly a month after being arrested, interrogated, and processed for sharing God’s Word among China’s truly unreached, and refusing to turn in my teammates (enabling them to escape), my deportation day had finally come. Waving Goodbye The police had told…

As I counted down the days until my Final Expedition into the foothills of Tibet (on a Saturday night), I had time to pray and ponder the many amazing blessings we had already experienced during this difficult season. Besides being…

Despite my exhaustion, sleep was not easy to come by, not only because the sun was already shining, but also because I knew the phone might ring, or there could be a knock on the door, at any moment… Well,…

“Pray for us..that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.” The offending officer at the end of chapter two also happened to be very knowledgeable of other religions, including Christianity. For instance, at…

“Come this way”, I was told. “We’re gonna have to ask you some questions.” As I was being led into a nondescript single story building at the back of the large police complex, I felt my first twinge of real…

Double Quarantine When I originally began this series (late April, 2020) we had been on “lockdown” along with the rest of Peru for a month and a half. However, I had also been personally locked out of my adopted homeland…

Picture Perfect Ten years ago today I had a “near-death experience” along with a small team of South Africans, when we lost our brakes just after crossing over a 14,700 ft mountain pass in north-central Tibet. It had been a…