In 1977, amidst the bitterly cold days of the frigid Cold War, a young couple responded to God's dramatic call on their lives to go and live covertly behind The Iron Curtain. Filled with faith and buffeted by fear, they left the familiarity of family and the security of NATO to locate behind enemy lines inside Communist Poland in order to establish a Kingdom beachhead of evangelism and discipleship. From award-winning author Debby Thompson, Pulling Back the Iron Curtain is a collection of personal and intimate stories revealing a firsthand account of that unique assignment. Now, with authenticity and vulnerability, this pioneer missionary makes known to the world the tender and dramatic workings of God even behind the Iron Curtain.
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While the world was reading one story, God was writing another.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Background: Cold War in Context
- We Went through Fire and Water
- How Could You?!
- A Soldier’s Kiss
- Never Underestimate the Power of a Muffin
- God, I Cannot Do This
- Tanya
- A Needle in a Polish Haystack
- A Bittersweet Birthday
- And All the While She Slept
- Prayer Request: A Tea Set
- A Painfully Different Kind of Easter
- Our Little Girl Needed an Antibiotic
- What If?! What If They Run Out Before I Make It to the Front of the Line?
- God Met Me in My Communist Kitchen
- Admitting Wrong, Asking Forgiveness
- The Night I Stood with a Nation
- God Met Me on a Gurney in Communist Poland
- My Mother in the Hands of the Communist
- May Her Tribe Increase
- Auschwitz Tour with a Survivor of Block 11
- Betty Crocker Behind the Iron Curtain
- The Question on the Playground
- How Badly Do You Want a Turkey?
- Date Night! One Endeavor We Got Right
- God Met Me as a Smuggler in Communist Poland
- Parenting Challenges in a Clandestine Ministry
- Martial Law Part One: My Agonizing Question That Refused to Be Answered: Where Is Larry?
- Martial Law Part Two: A More Detailed Account of the Day That Stays with Me Forever
- Martial Law Part Three: God Met Me on a Bridge in Communist Poland
- Our Communication Crisis Behind the Iron Curtain
- The Night Mr. Vice President Came to Dinner Part One: The Crisis in the Kitchen
- The Night Mr. Vice President Came to Dinner Part Two: Feeling Like a Failure
- The Night Mr. Vice President Came to Dinner Part Three: An Eternal Conclusion
- The Tornado
- Light for the Soul of a Needy Mom
- The Moscow Circus
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
- My Siberian Gift, an Unexpected Treasure
- Death Is Not Our Destiny, Heaven Is Our Home
- Meet Women Who Survived the Cold War
- The Message We Carried
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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