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Welcome to a new series on my long dormant “Missionary Coach Podcast”. I am Bill Hutchison, I have been a missionary with Youth With A Mission since 1998 and currently work with the Global Communications Team.
When I was in Switzerland in 1999 I was blessed to hear Rudi Lack speak about some of his journey “taking the Gospel across forbidden boarders” when I was doing a GENESIS School with Youth With A Mission in Lausanne. His stories were challenging, exciting, and very gripping.
Unfortunately his book is long out of print, and even used copies are hard to come by (although some can be found on Amazon). Somewhere in my multiple moves around the world I lost the signed copy of the book that I got from Rudi. I’ve recently come across a used copy of his book, and since it is now out of print, I thought we could read it together, and get inspired by some of his stories.
It’s been many years since I read the book, so I have forgotten many of the details, so we will get to experience them together.
Rudi Lack passed away in February 3, 2010. This is what I wrote about his passing back then …
Rudi Lack was YWAM’s first member from Switzerland and Europe. He joined Youth With A Mission in the winter of 1969 after translating for Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission, in a German speaking church in Switzerland.
The ministry that God had Rudi involved in spread across the world. He was the first person from YWAM to minister in East Africa, South Africa, China and many other regions and nations of the world.
Rudi’s ministry will live on the countless lives that he touched while serving in YWAM. He gained the nick-name “the YWAM Bumblebee” because he was known to “cross-pollinate and share vision that leads to great fruitfulness!”. He distributed millions of Christian books around the world and wrote two books, “Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” and “101 Leadership Principles”.
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Unfortunately I have not been able to find any English speaking audio or video recordings of Rudy Lack. The only video I did find was an interview that Rudy did in French, which I will link to in the show notes at missionarystories.org.
Next week we will start with Chapter 1 of his book, called “A Seed Planted”. To give you a preview of what we can expect, here is the first chapter …
A gray army truck roared into the missionary compound. Dust belching from its tires, it screeched to a halt beside my van and disgorged gun-toting African soldiers, all dressed in camouflage-combat uniforms. Accompanying them were three communist Chinese. Dr. Durrie and I stared in disbelief. “Hands Up!” roared a burly-faced African officer, brandishing his gun in my face. My arms shot up automatically …
And we will continue with our reading of “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Boarders” by Rudi Lack, next week …
Video: Ze Mag avec Rudy Lack et Rolf Schneider
There is also a copy of his book on the Internet Archive, which you can find here.