Please God Don't Make Me Go!: A Foot-Dragger's Memoir

Whats a comfortable--and cowardly--suburbanite to do when her husband wants to move their young family to Colombia South America so he can teach missionaries kids?Linda K. Thomas has always planned to chase the American dream. Adventure doesnt appeal to her and shes ill-equipped for missions work. She begs God Please dont make me go! but after months of soul-searching she hears him say Go!So with flimsy faith and wobbly courage she sets out with her husband and kids on a life-changing adventure at the end of the road in the middle of nowhere with Wycliffe Bible Translators.When culture shock and tropical heat threaten to undo Linda shes tempted to run away and hike back to the U.S. Instead she fights to settle in and soon falls in love with her work alongside modern-day heroes of the faith disguised as regular folks. God has sent her where she didnt know she wanted to go.Once life is under control and easy she gets a surprise--a request to go to one of the worlds most dangerous drug-dealing regions where hundreds of people have lost their lives. Colombia is perilous in other ways too. Marxist guerrillas dont like Americans or missionaries proving it with bombs kidnapping and eventually murder.Linda wont trust God to help her make the trip and she cant trust herself either. Gripped by anxiety she longs to stay in the only safe place the mission center. She prays Please God dont make me go! But once again He urges Go! Thus begins a fierce internal battle. In this heartwarming sometimes humorous sometimes shocking memoir youll walk alongside a young wife and mother as she faces two universal struggles: choosing between her plans and Gods and choosing faith and courage over fear and cowardice.Please God Dont Make Me Go! will motivate the timid to cancel membership in the Society of the Faint-Hearted and it will inspire every reader to enjoy God more and embrace new adventures He dreams up.