Outrageous Courage

Content Page

1. Taken Hostage
2. Conquered by Love
3. Rescue Missions
4. Raw Obedience
5. Back to the Streets
6. Defying Death
7. Learning to Run
8. Wild Trust
9. Pure Passion
10. Bringing Orphans Home
11. The Real World
12. Epilogue – written by Kris Vallotton

From the Back Cover

Contained in these pages is a story that will change your life. Consider yourself warned.

Dear Reader,
This is the story of one of the most courageous, radically obedient people we know.

Tracy Evans, a physician assistant, has treated rebel guerillas while captive on an Asian island. She's sipped tea in a Mozambican hut while bullets whistled through the grass walls. She's cared for 900 HIV-positive orphans.

In these pages you will find not only gripping, unembellished true stories of Tracy's exploits around the globe, but the more amazing account of what God can do with--and through--one person's raw faith and obedience.

Tracy's life has had an unbelievable impact on us, our families and our friends. We pray that you, too, will be inspired to radical obedience, faith adventures and wild trust in God’s power and purpose for your life.

Put on your seatbelt and let the journey begin!

Love in Christ,
Kris Vallotton Jason Vallotton

30 years on the mission field will undoubtedly yield countless stories that would make the average Christian stumble over their driveway and head butt their privileged lifestyle. Yet many of us have aspirations to go on daring adventures into faraway lands with our Bibles and a suitcase of sun tan lotion to proclaim good news, love people and get stuck in.

If you’re one of these people, I’d recommend reading a missionary biography – like Tracy Evans book, ‘Outrageous Courage’. They give you a window into the life of a missionary, the immense cost and the worth-while reward. Not only will it open your eyes to the needs of our hurting and torn up world, it will prepare you for the eventuality that doing mission work will also hurt and rip you into pieces.

Tracy’s church history threads back to Bethel Church, in Redding, California. She rode her motorbike up to the church one day and got talking to Kris Vallotton, now one of the pastors. Bill Johnson, world-respected pastor and speaker, is close friends with Tracy and mentors her. It’s interesting to read how he opens the book in the preface:

“… there are few people in the world I fear as much as Tracy. I realize that may not sound biblical to some, or even healthy, yet the most honest expression of my heart is “I fear God in Tracy.” – taken from the Preface in ‘Outrageous Courage’, Bill Johnson.

You’re right Bill, that does seem strange. But he goes on to explain the reason for the title of this book – Outrageous Courage. Tracy Evans has supernatural courage, and that is very scary.

This book illustrates one big lesson for budding missionaries – the cost is great, but the rewards are greater. Tracy’s short book illustrates that genuine growth in Christ doesn’t happen in the safety of church, the classroom or morning devotionals. It happens when if God doesn’t intervene, you will fail, or even die.

Travelling to a war-torn country is nothing short of crazy, why would anyone with an ounce of sanity go? You need supernatural, outrageous courage. Inside Tracy’s book you read about all the experiences she has dealt with, the truma, the near-death experiences, the heart-ache – but you also tatse the rewards. Tracy is probably one of the strongest Christians alive! Spiritually, mentally and emotionally!

“Outrageous Courage will not disappoint. Read it hungry, and you will finish it hungrier. It does more than satisfy; it launches the reader on a quest—a partnership for something new.” – taken from the Preface in ‘Outrageous Courage’, Bill Johnson.

Contained in these pages is a story that will change your life. Consider yourself warned.

Dear Reader,
This is the story of one of the most courageous, radically obedient people we know.

Tracy Evans, a physician assistant, has treated rebel guerillas while captive on an Asian island. She's sipped tea in a Mozambican hut while bullets whistled through the grass walls. She's cared for 900 HIV-positive orphans.

In these pages you will find not only gripping, unembellished true stories of Tracy's exploits around the globe, but the more amazing account of what God can do with--and through--one person's raw faith and obedience.

Tracy's life has had an unbelievable impact on us, our families and our friends. We pray that you, too, will be inspired to radical obedience, faith adventures and wild trust in God’s power and purpose for your life.
Put on your seatbelt and let the journey begin!

Love in Christ,
Kris Vallotton & Jason Vallotton