A Jew a Miracle and a Mission

by Baum, Wilhelm

• ISBN13: 9781585970476
• ISBN10: 1585970476
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Leathers Pub

Summary

Wilhelm Baum, son of a once prosperous Jewish family in Dortmund, Germany came to America one and half years after Hitler's rise to power. While serving as photographer in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he was invited to photograph a "G.I. Gospel Team" while they gave their testimony at a nearby church.

Wilhelm tells of his inner struggle as he hears the way of Salvation for the first time and how he, as a Jew, made a momentous decision. He also recounts the events after he returned home, entered Bible school and of his subsequent evangelistic travels throughout the U.S. Canada and Alaska.

In 1952 he went as missionary to Japan for 28 years, where he married that special girl he had met at Bible school.

Since his "retirement" in 1980, he has proclaimed the "Good News" in over 26 countries, including Russia and all of Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and even in the People's Republic of China.

To make the Gospel message easier to understand, especially to the younger generation, he uses many visual and often astounding illustrations, includ

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Life Begins
The Issues of Life	p. 3
Life Before Life
My Youth	p. 11
Hitler Comes to Power	p. 15
A New World and a New Life	p. 21
I Find a Career	p. 27
I Become a Soldier	p. 31
Film Greats Before My Camera	p. 35
Life and Living
A Civilian Again	p. 41
To Bible School and Then On the Road	p. 47
My Car and I	p. 49
An Encounter of Eternal Consequences	p. 51
I Become a Missionary	p. 55
Farewell to Father	p. 59
Off to the Orient!	p. 61
The Japanese Culture	p. 63
I Learn to Speak Japanese	p. 67
Kanji	p. 71
The First Step Is Hardest	p. 75
Partings	p. 79
Finally, To Get Really Started	p. 81
Kanji: Righteousness	p. 86
My Earliest Evangelistic Efforts	p. 89
Japanese Evangelism	p. 91
It Is Not Good That Man Should Be Alone	p. 93
Nagahara	p. 99
Our First Furlough	p. 103
Back at the Task	p. 107
Architect and Missionary	p. 113
Christmas in Japan	p. 117
Globe-hopping	p. 119
Back to Japan	p. 123
University Professor, Thanks to an Air Conditioner	p. 125
Not Quite a Choir Director	p. 131
Finally retired? Or What?	p. 135
Tromboning through Europe	p. 139
Japan Once More ... and China	p. 143
Getting Beyond Germany's "Red" Tape	p. 149
I Become a Chaplain	p. 157
More Bibles into China	p. 159
Kenya, Brazil, Paraguay	p. 163
Not Exactly Unafraid	p. 171
To the Black Sea	p. 175
Incident at the Border	p. 181
Frustrated in Romania	p. 187
I Visit Auschwitz	p. 195
The Road Back	p. 201
Russia	p. 205
My Heart Gives Out	p. 211
After a Year's Pause	p. 215
This Time, a Two-Some	p. 221
Insights	p. 223
The last of my missionary travel reports	p. 226
Notes on Kristallnacht	p. 233
Special Section
An Illuminating Truth	p. 235
Japanese Necktie Design	p. 236
The Unity of God	p. 238
Japanese Kanji on 'Being Holy'	p. 239
The Gospel A La Chopsticks	p. 242
Kanji on 'The Son of God'	p. 244
Thoughts on 'Why the Holocaust'	p. 247
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