Kimberly L. Smith - Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances

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Passport through Darkness

What you read in this book will be used of God to motivate you to action on behalf of vulnerable children around the world. In the process, as you walk with Kimberly, you may also find perspective, forgiveness, and healing in your own life. May God use His servants story to His glory. Not only Kimberlys story, but yours and mine as well.

From the foreword by Randy Alcorn, best-selling author of Heaven and If God Is Good

What I love about this book is that its a real-life story filled with credibility from a friend. It isnt an ideaits a reality. Read this, and then do it.

Dr. Bob Roberts, Jr., senior pastor at NorthWood Church

Kimberly Smith has seen the desperation and powerlessness of people caught up in the struggle for life and survival. Her experiences in Darfur bring home the brutality and pain of those who suffer and the indifference of the world beyond. Yet the central message of this book is not despair but hope. It is a powerful reminder that God forgives and renews and that His love stretches into the most hopeless situations in life and draws us into truth.

Dr. Elaine Storkey, author, broadcaster, president of Tearfund, and ambassador for Restored

A literary treasure this book will shock and intrigue you and open your eyes to consider more courageous avenues in serving God and suffering humankind than ever before. Kimberly Smith weaves her story of ultimate human love, hate, and forgiveness balanced between home and hell. She risks all to give voice to victims of unimaginable cruelty, and in doing so, she exposes herself to that same darkness.

Linda C. Fuller, cofounder of Habitat for Humanity International and the Fuller Center for Housing

Kimberly Smith has been a Mother Teresa to the people of Sudan. She rescues suffering girls and lost boys forgotten by everyone but God.

Greg Garrison, reporter for The Birmingham News

Passport through Darkness is the extraordinary life journey of Kimberly Smith, an incredible woman with a passion to accomplish the unimaginable! And she succeeds! An amazing story and inspiring read.

Denise George, speaker and author of twenty-five books, including The Secret Holocaust Diaries

I dare you to read this book! You will be wrecked by Gods call, humanitys cry, and a subsequent move to action. The honesty and gravity of this book will bring personal healing, compassion, and a calibration of heart. This book has become recommended reading for our students and workers in the nations.

Riaan Heyns, pastor of Global Ministries at New Life Church

This is more than a well-written, powerful, and inspiring story. It is a change agent that will impact the way you see abused and abandoned children. More importantly, the author allows you to look beyond individual heroic acts of ministry and see the spiritual journey of a soul who has an emerging passion for God. It is not only a telescope that shows you what is occurring in Sudan but also a microscope that will help you look into your own heart. This book is contagious.

Dr. Gary Fenton, senior pastor at Dawson Family of Faith and Dawson Memorial Baptist Church

I finished reading this book several weeks ago and yet the message has haunted me almost every day since. Kimberlys story of her many trials and triumphs in Sudan is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. The book reads like the most adventurous, power-packed drama of all time and yet it is true! I couldnt put this book down.

Donna Schuller, CNC, pastor and author of A Legacy of Success and Woman to Woman Wisdom

Angelina Jolie shes not. Shes not a martial arts expert or a small-arms expert or an expert inwell anything. She has no classified files in her past, no shadowy backstory in special ops, and her only brush with international intrigue was once squinting in a dark theater at the subtitles of a foreign film. She is, in fact, a soft-spoken Southern woman with fair skin prone to burning and red hair prone to frizzing. Hardly a casting directors dream for the role in the story you are about to read, shes far too uncomfortable as a leading lady, far too unsure of herself, far too tormented by her inner fears. However, she was Gods dream for the role. I recently read a book on story, where the author said that the greatest stories arent about undaunted characters who overcome their greatest foes but about unlikely characters who overcome their greatest fears. Kimberly Smith is one of those characters. And this is one of those stories.

Ken Gire, author of Moments with the Savior, Windows of the Soul, and The North Face of God

From her camp in the desert Kimberly L. Smith pulls back the canvas of her tent to show us the good, the bad, and the ugly of our world today in Passport through Darkness . She allows us to see into her tent of meeting (Ex. 33:7) with God. The level of transparency and intimacy she reveals in her walk with God and her husband is encouraging, inspiring, motivating, and challenging. This book challenges Westerners about their contentment with insulated, secure livesas we sit and sing our polite little songs in our pristine churches. How do we not stand up for our brothers and sisters thousands of miles away where human beings are treated without dignitytrafficked, bought, sold, and traded like animals?

Tomi Lee T. L. Grover, PhD, anti-trafficking consultant and founder of www.TraffickStop.org

If I didnt know Kimberly well, I would have thought she was writing fiction. Passport through Darkness is real, raw, full of vulnerabilityand is infused with much hope and love. But I do know Kimberly well, and I know that she has experienced the darkest sides of humanityand the brightest piercings of the light of Gods redemptive love. Reading this book will propel us all beyond our self-imposed boundaries, to the ultimate risk of finding and following Christs call for our own lives.

Rev. Dr. Lauran Bethell, global consultant, Ministries with Victims of Human Trafficking and Prostitution, International Ministries, ABC/USA; coordinator, International Christian Alliance on Prostitution; and former director, New Life Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand

In the song Amazing Grace, the songwriter rejoices that he was once blind but now he sees. Because of some horrific, dangerous, and miraculous experiences, Kimberly Smith definitely sees the world with new eyes. As she struggles to help orphans and rape victims survive, she goes deep inside places that most Westerners barely glimpse on the evening news. But Kimberly proves that once your eyes have been opened you can never be the same again. This book will surely open your eyes to the plight that befalls women and children around the world, but more than that, it provides evidence that in the midst of suffering is where you truly discover God and His greatness.

Dr. Tom White, executive director of Voice of the MartyrsUSA

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