A few days ago, I announced on Facebook that I had just
added four more Christmas stories to the Amazon Kindle marketplace making a
total of eight short eBooks I now have available for sale.
These are all part
of a tradition I started years ago of reading a short story to my family every
Christmas Eve. Although all of them have a theme linking them to Christmas,
many were inspired by travel to other countries for visits with national
ministry leaders. Here’s a bit of background on some of the latest stories I
just uploaded to Amazon:
The
Forbidden Christmas The setting for
this story is Timbuktu, Mali, site of one of the ancient Islamic university centers
of the 1500’s. I've had a chance to visit Timbuktu on multiple occasions both
while working with MAF and Partners International. My good friend, Pastor Nouh,
gave me the official tour of the city, including a visit to the famous Sankore
Mosque and a camel ride out into the surrounding desert. Unfortunately,
Timbuktu has been the center of horrific rebel fighting during the past two
years which has forced the evacuation of most Christians from the region.
The
Christmas Card Years ago, MAF was exploring how it might be able to start a
flight program and possibly a radio communication service in the country of Kazakhstan.
As the VP of Research back then, I was sent to check it out. Accompanied by
John Charlier, we traveled from the capital, Almaty, all the way across the
country to the fascinating cities of Actau and Atyrau, both on the Caspian Sea.
Although our interviews with government officials didn't produce any new
possibilities for MAF, it certainly gave me plenty of ideas for writing this
Christmas story.
Bread
Upon the Waters My friend, Maher Fouad, founder of the Arab World
Evangelical Ministers Association in Cairo, Egypt, was the reason for my visit
to that city a number of years ago. Not only did we spend plenty of time
discussing the challenges of mobilizing Arab church-planters across North Africa
and the Middle East, but he also graciously arranged for a tour of the pyramids
and the Cairo Museum. It didn't take long to dream up a Christmas story based
on the sights and sounds of that ancient city.
Sorry – no cool mission trip connection on this story. It
just happens to be the second one I ever wrote dating back to 1993.
The other four eBooks I have on Amazon are:
Hope you might have as much fun sharing some of these stores with your family has I have had reading them to mine.
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