Description: In All the Way Home, missionary and former hostage Jeff Woodke tells his gripping story of surviving six and a half years of physical brutality and soul-crushing fear at the hands of al-Qaida--only to emerge more certain than ever that nothing is more powerful than God's love and faithfulness.
Brief description:
Jeff Woodke is a speaker, writer, poet, and hostage advocate. He and his family worked with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Niger, West Africa, for decades and served their community by digging wells, establishing primary schools, assisting with land regeneration and famine relief, and advocating for climate change adaptation. He won a Sasakawa Award in 2009 from the United Nations for disaster risk reduction work in Niger. In 2016, he was taken hostage by terrorists linked to al-Qaida and held for six and a half years in northern Mali. Released in 2023, he returned to his wife, children, and grandchildren in California with PTSD and stories that needed telling. The rest is still to come.