Sokreaksa s himm biography of mahatma

A number of years ago I read a biography of a Cambodian boy who was a Christian during the Pol Pot regime. It was called Salvation in the Killing Fields and told the story of a boy named Chanla. Although I had hoped it would be, the book was not strongly evangelistic.

Chanla's faith was manifest throughout the book, however, and one of the young men in our church youth group read it and gave a spellbinding (so he told me) oral report on it for his public high school English class. 1

I discovered The Tears of my Soul on the Internet and read some descriptions of it.

Sokreaksa s himm biography of mahatma gandhi

Once again, I had hopes that it would be a good evangelistic book for Cambodian young people. It would do them good to see how the Lord worked in the life of one Cambodian teen in a war zone far worse than the Long Beach East Side.

Unfortunately, this story also fell short of my expectations. I was sincerely touched by most of what the youngster went through but the Christian part of the drama was strangely incomplet