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Lester Sumrall's Short Stories
Travels in 55 Countries
40 short stories from the adventures of a world renown evangelist and missionary statesman
The voice of Dr. Lester Sumrall remains prominent in the Christian world today. More than 65 years of ministry in over 100 nations made Dr. Sumrall a respected source of wisdom and understanding and author over over 130 books.
He was an author, teacher, missionary, evangelist, and the pastor and founder of Christian Center Church in South Bend, Indiana. Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Sumrall worked tirelessly to fulfill the great commission by carrying the gospel to the ends of the earth. in 1957 he founded LeSEA, a multi-faceted global outreach. Today LeSEA's outreaches blanket the world through television, satellite, FM and shortwave radio and FEED THE HUNGRY.
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Tell me a story...
In Keijo, Korea I was speaking through a Korean interpreter who did not have perfect understanding of the English language. During the course of my message I said, "Now I will tell you a story." To the limited English of my interpreter a story could only be an untruth; therefore he interpreted in Korean, "Now I will tell you a lie."
Fortunately, a missionary present who understood both languages came to the rescue and explained to him in Korean that the English word "story" was also a true illustration. The native congregation enjoyed the 'confusion of tongues' immensely, and they re-adjusted their position on the oriental grass rug floor, and leaned forward to hear a true story from a foreign land.
While speaking for a number of years to people of many languages, every color, and varying stages of culture - from primitive jungle Indians in the Gran Chaco Boreal of Paraguay to university students in centers of learning - I have observed that the human mind relishes a lively, true story, possibly more than any other prepared material.
The true story is a powerful illustration if dexterously used by a public speaker, as it not only illustrates and defecates his discourse but becomes an integral part of the personality of the audience. Stories live on in the hearts of men from generation to generation, after synthetic-fictional stories have been buried by vicissitudes of time.
Hundreds of persons in the course of my travels have said, "Tell me a story of your world travels." Mr. Clarence Jones, co-founder and director of HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, Quito, Ecuador, after hearing some of my stories given over his radio station requested, "Put them in book form and send me a copy to read on HCJB."
Therefore I present a volume of true stories.
Lester F. Sumrall. (1913 - 1996)
Enjoy the exotic, dangerous, and endearing adventures of a man of God, faithful to go to the ends of the earth and minister to all he met.
An early classic - First printing in 1946 and reprinted in 2005.
Trade Paperback
102 pages
Product Dimensions 13 x 19.5 x 0.5cm
Shipping Weight 120g
ISBN 0-937580-27-9
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The voice of Dr. Lester Sumrall remains prominent in the Christian world today. More than 65 years of ministry in over 100 nations made Dr. Sumrall a respected source of wisdom and understanding and author over over 130 books.
He was an author, teacher, missionary, evangelist, and the pastor and founder of Christian Center Church in South Bend, Indiana. Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Sumrall worked tirelessly to fulfill the great commission by carrying the gospel to the ends of the earth. in 1957 he founded LeSEA, a multi-faceted global outreach. Today LeSEA's outreaches blanket the world through television, satellite, FM and short wave radio and FEED THE HUNGRY.
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