In 1995, when John jogged past a church on Capitol Hill, he was looking for a status boost. What he found was the gospel and then a wife. In 2001, when Mack and Leeann landed in Dubai, they looked for a church. What they found was a well-meaning mess. So they called for help. This is the story of John and Keri.

The first act in our story covers a lot of ground—from an icy crevice on a Swiss mountain to a below-freezing night capped off by the fiery Billy Graham. It involves a surprising conversion that eventually leads to a transatlantic flight on an empty plane. This is the story of Mack and Leeann.

In 1972, at the base of a Swiss mountain, God saved a man named Mack Stiles. Two decades later, John Folmar “accepted Jesus as his personal Savior”; he doesn’t know even where he first heard that phrase.

What happens in the next quarter-century is a testament to God’s commitment to use faithful, ordinary ministry to effect fruitful, extraordinary change. A Storm in the Desert tells this story.