Fire on the Mountain

If you haven’t figured it out, these days I am up to my neck in editing and publishing ventures. As an agent I am negotiating book deals. As an editor I am shepherding several websites and blogs. I am also helping a close friend in a publishing venture. Roger Sachs has been "missional" since he was radically saved during the Jesus movement. Before his conversion, he had been a hippie and a drug dealer until he ended up in a Mexican prison. He was in on the early days of the Vineyard and Keith Green. He worked with Lonnie Frisbee in the 80s and 90s. He is not an international speaker, nor is he the pastor of a megachurch. But he is a guy who sold all he had, cashed in his family’s savings and bought round-the-world airline tickets to do missions work in New Zealand, Africa and England.

On that trip he found himself hiding out in a storm pipe in the African wilderness along with many other adventures. Over the years Roger has had a passion to write about these adventures. In his own, raw and conversational style he has told his story in his first book, Fire on the Mountain, available through Freedom Publications. This is the kind of book that "missional" leaders should read if they want to understand how truly radical following Christ can be.