Paul Williscroft - Pentecostal Assemblies of God Missionary Biography Poland

Description: Mission Possible: Paul Williscroft's Epic Struggle Against Nazi and Communist Oppression, by Gladys L. Williscroft. Enterprise, OR: Biography Press, 2000. Paperback, 414 pages. Very Good+ condition. Solid binding, no marks. "From the secure life of a rural pastor in Montana to the shadow of the Iron Curtain, the life of Paul Williscroft reads like a novel. There is no fiction, however, in the fact that through personal risk and sacrifice he found ways to penetrate political and military barriers with the gospel of peace." —Paul Goodman, Superintendent Montana District Council of the Assemblies of God This is the fascinating true story of a twenty-something couple who left the security of the United States for the villages of Nazi-occupied Poland before the start of World War II, where they brought the gospel of personal Christianity to an oppressed people who knew only the heavy hand of the Roman Catholic church and the booted heel of Nazi occupiers. As the clouds of war closed in on them, they escaped by the skin of their teeth to become rural Assemblies of God pastors in Montana, but only sufficiently long for the war to end. In 1950, they returned to war-ravaged Europe to reassemble the pieces of their pre-war ministry. With the looming threat of the Iron Curtain, Paul Williscroft extended his ministry, finding ways to penetrate political and military barriers throughout Eastern Europe with the gospel of peace. Their story reads like a novel, but it all happened. Paul and Gladys Williscroft had a mission in life: to offer faith, hope, and love to people without hope in a world gone mad. Gladys Williscroft (nee Buck) was born in 1912, attended the Northwest Bible Institute in Seattle, where she met and married Paul Williscroft. They traveled to Poland as missionaries, returned to Montana as WW II broke out (there their children Robert and Beverly were born), and returned to Europe in 1950, following the end of the conflict. With the exception of several sojourns in the US to raise support funds, they spent the rest of Paul's life in Germany where they actively pursued religious education for German-speaking Europeans, children's religious education, and where they founded what was to become the largest religious publishing house in Europe: The Leuchter Verlag. When Paul passed away in 1987, Gladys returned to the US. If you purchase multiple items on the same day, we will ship the items together and refund excess postage. Overseas buyers: We charge actual postage on foreign shipments. Will refund excess postage paid.

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