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Author Foreman, Emily, author

Title We died before we came here : a true story of sacrifice and hope / Emily Foreman
Published Colorado Springs : NavPress, 2016

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Contents The butcher -- The prison -- The dangerous prayer -- Putting down roots -- Finding our way -- The American dilemma -- Not forgotten -- Culture shock -- What is my mission? -- Faith in the storms -- Talking about Jesus -- Urgency -- Blessed are the balanced -- Enemy territory -- Money is the root -- Restless -- Then came the rain -- Fog -- Loss and found -- The rain continues
Summary If not you, who' If not now, when' This was the challenge answered by Stephen Foreman and his wife, Emily, when they traded in their American white picket fence for a giant, dusty sandbox as missionaries in the deserts of North Africa. Stephen had given Emily a well-read copy of Foxe's Book of Martyrs on their first date, a telling foreshadowing of the ultimate cost he would pay when, at 39, he was shot and killed by al-Qaeda operatives. His life and death planted a seed of boldness and inspiration in the hearts of local believers. This seed would grow and multiply efforts to help reach the very goal that Stephen was willing to give his life for-glorifying God and seeing his Kingdom established among the nations. In this memoir, Emily, left with four kids and an undying calling to reach the Muslim world, recounts their heartrending yet uplifting story of sacrifice and love for a people held captive by the ultimate Enemy. Stephen did not die in vain. This promise echoes through the book's pages and far beyond, in the minds and lives of countless individuals touched by a man who daily put his life in the hands of God. Because of security issues and the need to protect other workers and local believers in the country, the book employs pseudonyms for all major characters, including the authors
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Subject Foreman, Emily
Foreman, Stephen (Missionary)
SUBJECT Foreman, Stephen (Missionary) fast
Foreman, Emily fast
Subject Missionaries -- Africa, North -- Biography
Missionaries -- United States -- Biography
Social workers -- Africa, North -- Biography
Social workers -- United States -- Biography
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Africa, North
Missions to Muslims -- Africa, North
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Humanitarian assistance, American
Missionaries
Missions to Muslims
Social workers
North Africa
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631464522
1631464523