A Pastor's Adventures, the Good, the Bad, and the Sad

Retired Pastor Joe B. Hewitt’s new book, A Pastor’s Adventures, the Good, the Bad, and the Sad, tells of his ministry in Texas that took him also from frozen Siberia to the heat of the Amazon River. Wherever he went, in mission trips to Mexico, England, Brazil and Russia, he found humor, events that touch the heart, and others that show evil ingenuity that is stranger than fiction.
Starting with his call to the ministry, Hewitt reveals some of his antics in seminary, such as starting a political party and electing a new student council. He tells of the struggle to start a new church and of the many good people he met along the way. He also tells of a woman who did things that would not be believable if in a novel.
Hewitt made three trips to Russia and was stranded in Siberia for two days when his Russian airline jet plane wouldn’t fly any more. He preached in a small city at 64 degrees north latitude, just south of the Arctic Circle. The ground was permanently frozen 600 feet below the city.
He pastored a church in England for a month while the pastor of the English church pastored Hewitt’s church in Texas. “We traded houses, churches, and cars, everything except wives,” he said. Mission trips to Brazil ranged from the southern tip of the country to Manaus, 1,000 miles up the Amazon where the river is 10 miles wide and 700 feet deep.
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