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by Bill Becknell (Author)
* Agape has a network of subscribers, emails, churches, donors and supporters of over 10,000 people who are asking when will the book be published.
* This book encourages people not to be afraid to follow God to the "Ends of the Earth" with the example of one man who did.
* It gives an insiders candid view to the remote and isolated places in Russia and what it is like to live and travel there.
* It encourages people to be steadfast in their faith by seeing how God provides miracles at times for those who choose to obey Him.
* It shows how "joy" can come into our lives at the most unexpected and difficult times.
* It teaches that promises should be kept, not broken and that God always keeps His promises.
* It proves that real "joy" comes from following Jesus, even if He leads you to the "Ends of the Earth"
Author Biography
Dr. Bill Becknell was a successful Surgeon in Eastern Kentucky, living what he believed was the ideal Christian life with his wife and children when tragedy struck and destroyed everything he loved. The one thing that survived, and became stronger, was his faith. He watched the Soviet empire crumble and after two years of praying and fasting he decided to keep a promise he made to God at the age of fourteen while he was dying. He gave away all his worldly goods and arrived in Russia with his only remaining possessions---thirteen boxes and a promise that God would take care of him.
He has written hundreds of newsletters, emails, blogs and comments from Russia and collected more than ten thousand amazing and beautiful photos from his travels to these remote and isolated places. He has traveled across Russia on every conceivable type of transportation imaginable from reindeer sleighs, horses, canoes, fishing boats, broken cars, vans, jeeps, trucks, trains, and buses, as well as on foot, sometimes without sleeping for days. And he has lived with the indigenous people on the Tundra and the Taiga in order to share God's Love with them.
He has been interviewed on the NBC Today Show by Jane Pauley and by the Crossroads Canadian Christian TV network. He has had numerous radio, newspaper and journal interviews and has preached at many churches across the USA.
