Description
Go Now! is the true story of Wendell Martin and the amazing adventure he found himself caught up in when he dared to answer God’s call to ‘Go to Hong Kong Now!’
The book is filled with bold faith and miracle stories that take you among the wild head-hunters in norther Philippines, to Communist China where Wendell and his wife, Daisy, made over 1000 border crossings with suitcases loaded with Bibles. It is the story of how God miraculously opened the way to deliver the gospel into every home in Hong Kong, and the surprising miracle that launched a ministry among thousands of Vietnamese Boat People detained in refugee camps in Hong Kong.
However, this book is more than just amazing missionary stories. Wendell gives you an intimate inside look at how God worked deep in his heart, the lessons learned in God’s ‘School of Hard Knocks’ and how the power of God rescued a discontented young man and crafted him into an effective tool for His service.
About the author...
Wendell Martin is the Founder and Director of Go Forth Ministry and has served the Lord in Asia since 1986. He has led over 50 mission teams to participate in the ongoing ministry that now extends beyond Hong Kong to China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Wendell and his wife, Daisy, reside in Wooster, Ohio.
About the book...
God is the most imaginative story-writer ever. Every person created was formed with the intent and capacity to be a great masterpiece. God desires to write out a story on the pages of that life. Your life is a story. What kind of story is it?
I wanted my life to be one of those adventures, the kind you usually only read about. The sad reality was, however, my life was disappointingly mundane and predictable. One day, I discovered there was a better narrative God desired to write of my life all along. This would be the story of a life based not on fate and circumstances, but one custom-designed, full of adventure, risk, surprises, and wrapped up in purposeful significance. It promised to thrill, challenge, and take me to places I never dreamed I could go.
Up to this point, the story of my life seemed to have little significance. I was doing life, not living it. How I longed to step into a new and better narrative, the kind of elusive story Jesus seemed to be offering those who dared to follow Him. The challenges of stepping into it would require a violent and dramatic reshaping of the things I held dear, things I had written on my heart in permanent ink: my history, my identity, my values, and my relationship to the God I thought I knew. It would require throwing off my hard-earned self-identity in a way that would be as dramatic as a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.
It wasn’t until I was willing to tear up my mundane, haphazardlyscrawled life narrative and invite God to write His own better version on fresh pages that I found myself being led into an adventure filled with excitement, purpose, mystery, and deep satisfaction. Only God Himself could have dreamed up the story I found myself caught up in.
The book you are holding in your hands is that story. It is a thread of events, a storyline composed on the pages of my life, interwoven into a much bigger chronicle, one God has been writing since the creation of this world.