The cross & the switchblade / David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, c2008.Edition: Teen Challenge 50th anniversary ed.; Special student edDescription: 192 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780515146356 (pbk. : special sales ed.)
  • 0515146358 (pbk. : special sales ed.)
  • 9780515090253
  • 0515090255
Other title:
  • Cross and the switchblade
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV 4464.5 .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 Storms Research Center Main Collection BV 4464.5 .W5 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98648805

"A Jove book / published by arrangement with Bernard Geis Associates"--T.p. verso.

Originally published in 1962.

"Second Special Sales edition / June 2008 ... epilogue copyright �2008 by Teen Challenge, Inc."--T.p. verso.

"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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