Christ and the Kalashnikov
Stories of hope in war-torn Albania
by Ian Loring as told to Muthena Paul Alkazraji
Paperback
Price: £5.99
Publisher:Marshall Pickering imprint of Zondervan
Published:11 June 2001
ISBN:0-551-03262-6
GoodBookStall Review:
Ian Loring was a young man from Bristol, bent on getting rich quick with no concern for others and certainly no acknowledgement that there was a God. Then everything went wrong in his business life and while soaking in a bath, the Lord spoke clearly to him and changed his life. He set out to find what the Lord wanted him to do, which is a story in itself. He came to Albania as an Evangelist in 1991, as communism was crumbling, long before the anarchy that erupted in 1997 that was reported in our newspapers. With others, including Caralee an American evangelist who became his wife, they brought many to Christ and when social disaster struck, the local church, with outside financial help, was able to do great things. Then came the influx of ethnic Albanian refugees driven out of Kosovo and help was given to them in Albania and in Kosovo as they returned home. I read this in one day, going from one emotion to another, and finished exhausted and exhilarated.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (18/07/01)
Ian Loring was a young man from Bristol, bent on getting rich quick with no concern for others and certainly no acknowledgement that there was a God. Then everything went wrong in his business life and while soaking in a bath, the Lord spoke clearly to him and changed his life. He set out to find what the Lord wanted him to do, which is a story in itself. He came to Albania as an Evangelist in 1991, as communism was crumbling, long before the anarchy that erupted in 1997 that was reported in our newspapers. With others, including Caralee an American evangelist who became his wife, they brought many to Christ and when social disaster struck, the local church, with outside financial help, was able to do great things. Then came the influx of ethnic Albanian refugees driven out of Kosovo and help was given to them in Albania and in Kosovo as they returned home. I read this in one day, going from one emotion to another, and finished exhausted and exhilarated.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (18/07/01)
