MUD, BULLETS AND OPEN ROADS
By David Robinson
10Publishing. 176 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 837 280 285
In this book, David Robinson gives his life story serving with OMF in Thailand (the mud), Cambodia (the bullets) and the UK (the open roads).
It is an encouraging story of church planting in Thailand, establishing an OMF presence in Cambodia after years of war, and working with Thai expats in the UK.
Some of the guidance David received seems subjective, but there is no doubt he was greatly used by God. Highlights include foiling an assassination, and small but vital stands of faithfulness made by the Thai babes in Christ.
The tensions of working with local leaders and an intercultural mission team are shown, but God worked through them. Many are saved, healed and freed from demon possession.
God is the real hero of the story – from calling David to follow Him at a Billy Graham rally in 1961 and then, at the Keswick Convention in 1965, calling him to serve as a missionary.
One of his colleagues in Thailand was murdered, and David also suffered the blow of losing his first wife, Jenny, to cancer, but God is always faithful and provided a second wife, Mary. They both now work with the Network of Thai Christians, looking to set up monthly Thai fellowships across the UK.
Conditions may have changed from the mud of Thailand in the 1960s, but the work of spreading the good news of Jesus stays the same. An encouraging read.
