OC founder Dick Hillis is an adventurer. His is the story of a man who plunged with abandon into the will of God. It is the story of the ever-widening circles that have revolved around that dive into obedience.

Dick Hillis has been entertained by presidents and ousted by regimes, sought after for his skills and threatened with death because of them. His story crosses continents and penetrates cultures. But it is not his story only, but also the story of Jesus Christ and His church in the twentieth century.

AW Tozer once wrote, “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” In that sense the story of Dick Hillis is also a love story. His life is a record of his continual seeking after an ever deepening intimacy with God.

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Though acclaimed a missions statesman and a close friend of such evangelical luminaries as Navigator, founder Dawson Trotman, first Youth for Christ president Torrey Johnson, and evangelist Billy Graham, Dr. Dick Hillis wanted most to be known as “a very ordinary man living in extraordinary surroundings but faced with very ordinary problems.”

In compiling this selected anthology of his refreshing and powerful writings, it became increasingly clear that this was more than a catchy phrase, but a life faithfully lived. He wrote so little about himself but very much about God’s preeminence in his life, about God’s incredible care and provision in the most extreme situations, about his beloved Chinese workers, and about those he considered true heroes of the faith.

In fact, in Part III of this book the reader will find about the only two chapters in his writings that give a clue as to the nature and incredible extent of his eight-year ministry in the troubled and hazardous China of the 1930s and ’40s.