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The Cross and The Switchblade

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: USA Fleming H. Revell Company 1964Description: 174 18ISBN:
  • 9780800794460
  • 080079446X
Patent information: 1963Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4464.5 .W5 2008
Summary: "Go to New York City and help those boys." When David Wilkerson heard those words in his heart late one night as he glanced at a picture in Life magazine, he was dumbfounded. The boys in question were members of a violent gang and on trial for murder. He was a country preacher settled comfortably in a little mountain church in Pennsylvania. What could God possibly expect him to accomplish--in New York City, of all places? But the thought would not let him go--and his life and the lives of countless despairing teens were changed forever on account of it. This is the story of the founding of Teen Challenge, an inner-city ministry that today maintains residential and crisis counseling centers around the globe. But even more, it is a story of how the most unlikely people can hear--and follow--God's call to do the impossible.--From publisher description.
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Book Central Papal Library 248.4 | T45L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 83117

Includes two new epilogues. . David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill ; [foreword by Charles W. Colson]

Originally published in 1963.

"Go to New York City and help those boys." When David Wilkerson heard those words in his heart late one night as he glanced at a picture in Life magazine, he was dumbfounded. The boys in question were members of a violent gang and on trial for murder. He was a country preacher settled comfortably in a little mountain church in Pennsylvania. What could God possibly expect him to accomplish--in New York City, of all places? But the thought would not let him go--and his life and the lives of countless despairing teens were changed forever on account of it. This is the story of the founding of Teen Challenge, an inner-city ministry that today maintains residential and crisis counseling centers around the globe. But even more, it is a story of how the most unlikely people can hear--and follow--God's call to do the impossible.--From publisher description.

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