From Pain to Purpose
A Young Woman's Journey from a Communist Prison to an American Pulpit
- 166 pages
- English
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From Pain to Purpose
A Young Woman's Journey from a Communist Prison to an American Pulpit
About this book
From Pain to Purpose is a suspenseful memoir depicting the costly commitment of a young woman to keep her faith to the end. Emboldened by an abiding love for Christ learned in the trenches of the underground church, Lumi's Christian discipleship was a costly undertaking. As the daughter of a communist party leader, she encountered bitter opposition to her faith from family, educators, and the government. At nineteen, Lumi finds herself at the harrowing epicenter of events that led to her arrest, imprisonment, and death sentence during the December 1989 anticommunist revolution. Woven into the story are romantic interests, challenges presented by peers, and a struggle with a call to ministry that made no sense for a woman.Upon the overthrow of communism, Lumi pilgrimages to an uncertain future in the United States, where she faces a different kind of prison, crueler than the communists could ever invent. From Pain to Purpose is a story of triumph birthed from a stubborn refusal to give up and the faithfulness of a God who cannot lie.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Keep It to the End
- Chapter 2: No Room for Gray
- Chapter 3: The Call
- Chapter 4: Faith in the Trenches
- Chapter 5: Dress Rehearsal
- Chapter 6: Truth Sends to Prison
- Chapter 7: Who Is Christian Here?
- Chapter 8: Doors No One Can Shut
- Chapter 9: Windows in the Heavens
- Chapter 10: No “Cats” in America
- Chapter 11: Prison without Walls
- Chapter 12: The Way Out
- Chapter 13: “Do You Love Me?”
- Chapter 14: What Locusts Have Eaten
- Chapter 15: “Feed My Sheep”