The Evangelical/Pentecostal church has 90 million followers in the United States and covers millions more in North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Africa this post-Protestant movement has dominated and captivated the Christian community since the 1970s. Described as emerging, charismatic, modern, reformed, refined, innovative and contemporary; this global church has promoted Christianity to be fashionable. Spearhead by internationally renowned televangelist preachers who teach and adopt a fundamental faith movement. This radical journey of outspoken faith has become the fastest growing craze in modern Christianity and been undertaken by millions of unsuspecting people who are leaving their traditional mainstream churches to join this innovative solution for their faith. Their sermons have become the most listened to gospel in modern time. Open the Church Doors and Let Me Out! is the remarkable true story of a missionary family travelling to North America only to find themselves abandoned by this local church. Following the Evangelical ethos, they discover that the innovation and declaration of its gospel is far from the lights and glamour of its staged productions. A deep, bold, compelling and stirring testimony which exposes controversies and biblically challenges the practices of the global, emerging, Evangelical church. It is the cry of millions of born again Christians around the world who are saying, 'enough is enough!' www.openthechurchdoorsandletmeout.com

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Jim Stortenbecker is a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa. where he currently resides with his wife of 42 years. He has three children and nine grandchildren. He is also a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in business and management. Jim Stortenbecker retired from the US Army in 1985 after 21 years of honorable service. He is extremely active in his church as an usher, a member of the church worship team and operator of the book and tape store. He is a singer and musician and dedicated to bringing about a change in the Christian faith through Christian unity and through his ministry, Turning The Tides and his web page, truetides.com, both of which are currently in the development stage. Jim has had several Christian related articles published in the local newspaper. His book, Christian Wake Up Call, is a call he received from God for Christians to put aside their denominational differences and unite to solidify the Christian faith and our relationship with the Trinity. We are facing the end times and God is sending the Christian community a wake up call. Jim has addressed this in his book with an urgent plea for unification.

This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader's mind -- Back cover