Matt Dury grew up in Nebraska. Turning his back on the cornfields of his childhood home, he sought adventure in Pakistan, teaching English as a second language. There he met and fell in love with Lola, a Filipino nurse at a local mission hospital. There was something different about Lola, with her lovely dark-almond eyes and her imperturbable faith in God. Whenever Matt proposed marriage she always said, “Let’s wait.”
What was Lola waiting for? A husband who shared her religious convictions and values. “Please, God, help me know what to do about Matt,” she cried.
And then there was Janda, a young Muslim boy. First, he stole Matt’s and Lola’s hearts, then thugs stole him – and made hima camel jockey. In hot pursuit Matt headed for exotic Dubai, experiencing a new spiritual intensity along the way. As Matt disentangled the dark threads o his past against an international canvas of suspense and intrigue, he struggled with what the Bible teaches about death and the Sabbath.
In this richly textured tale of spiritual coming-of-age in a Muslim country, you will learn what Islam and Christianity share in common and understand what it is like to serve God in a Gulf Arab state.