As Featured in the Film
Grace Jacob became an atheist in college after growing up in an evangelical pastor’s home. When she heard about Dr. Norman Geisler’s apologetics course at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the summer of 1975, she immediately quit her job and boarded an 18-hour train from New York City to Chicago, desperately hoping that Dr. Geisler could help her find God. If she wasn’t able to come to believe in God at the apologetics course, she planned to commit suicide because life wasn’t worth living without God. After two weeks of absorbing Dr. Geisler’s lectures, pouring over his text, and arguing with him after class, she realized that believing in God was reasonable and she committed her life to Christ. Ten years later she and her husband became missionaries in Hong Kong, then Mainland China for 29 years where she led many atheists and Buddhists to the Lord. Dragon Ride and Faith Ride tell her story.
DRAGON RIDE
True Stories of Adventure, Miracles, and Evangelism from China, Part 1
In Dragon Ride, the beauty of the Lord is seen through the eyes of Buddhists, atheists, idol-worshippers, Muslims, and an animist as they encounter Jesus. Dragon Ride records the actual conversations Grace had with her friends, and many of them embraced Christ as the answer to their deepest longings.
Grace writes about persecution, evading the police, saving lives, helping the homeless and disabled, and she even writes about the murder of a friend. But more importantly, she writes of a God who acts on behalf of His children, of a faith that grew in the crucible of China, and of learning how to effectively share the gospel.
Grace’s stories are raw, personal, and humorous, and she openly shares about her own spiritual struggles and growth.
Faith Ride
True Stories of Adventure, Miracles, and Evangelism from China, Part 2
These true stories draw you into the vibrant world of village life in Hong Kong and the dangers of serving the Lord in the communist police state of Mainland China, the places Grace Jacob and her family lived and ministered for 29 years.
Faith Ride speaks of daring and fear, faithfulness and betrayal, joyful successes and grievous failures. The Jacob family had to battle not only external dangers and also their own weaknesses. But the main character in the narratives is the great, gentle God the Jacob family trusted in.
These are humorous and intriguing stories of friendship between East and West. Prayerfully, step by step, Grace worked through the cultural, religious, and philosophical assumptions that were blocking her Buddhist and atheist friends from believing in the Lord, until finally, by God’s grace, many of them broke through and joyfully embraced Jesus as the answer to their hearts’ longings.
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