An Ordinary Man - A Great God

About the Book

An ordinary man found that serving a great God is always a rewarding life.  He saw lives changed from the bondage and hopelessness of sin to lives of great victory and peace.  His calling took him to dangerous places where he faced wolves, bandits, guns, bombs, and even being lost in the mountains at night.  He faced poverty, famine, and the death of many loved ones, and he found that God was sufficient for each day.  This man was Knute Hjalmar Ekblad, missionary to North China in the early 1900's.  His faith in his great God is contagious to any reader.

About the Author

Joy Mielke is the granddaughter of Missionary Knute Hjalmar Ekblad, and she knew first hand of his faith in God and his passion for souls.  Joy grew up on the farm where her grandfather labored, and she and her family still live in that vicinity.  She received Christ as her Savior at a very early age.  Joy met her husband, Marlon Mielke, while attending Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, and they were married in 1981.  She is a home school mother of five sons, and she also serves as her husband's helpmeet in the ministry as he pastors First Baptist Church of Milltown, Wisconsin. Joy's passion is ministering the changing power of the gospel, and she believes that missionary biographies are one powerful way to show what that gospel can do. She believes that every Christian home should be filled with well-read testimonials of God's servants.