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This volume of YWAM's International Adventures series was first published in 1976 by then Reona Peterson. 100-01, 148, 148-49, and 158-59) and some lectures are offered verbatim (see pp. 107-08). Apprehended, they were threatened, interrogated, and expelled. 160). Although interesting, the story does not, to my mind, match others in the International Adventure series in either the extent of the Christian service described (see Peace Child, A Cry From the Streets, and Living on the Devil's Doorstep) or the perils undergone (see Imprisoned in Iran). The author and a friend, Evey Muggleton (now Evey Muggleton Heckman) smuggled scriptures into Albania during a ten-day tour of that country in 1973. 59-61, 62-64), even though there is no evidence that Joly kept a diary and Heckman's record was destroyed during the trip (see pp.
Indeed, one wonders whether Joly's position as personal secretary to YWAM's founder, Loren Cunningham, played any part in the decision to publish this book (which might have been better as an article). Many lengthy quotes are not specifically ascribed to their source (see pp. Nor does Joly's treatment, traumatic though it may have been, appear to rise to the level of the "imprisonment" she claims (see p. This aside, the volume has useful insights into the smuggling of Christian literature into totalitarian countries and is a useful description of tourism in Albania in the 1970's.Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
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