Intended for Evil: A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields

by Les Sillars

Overview

A True Story of Surviving Genocide and Forging a New Life

When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, new Christian Radha Manickam and his family were among two million people driven out of the city. Over the next four years, 1.7 million people--including most of Radha's family--would perish due to starvation, disease, and horrifying violence. His new faith severely tested, Radha is forced by the communist regime to marry a woman he doesn't know. But through God's providence, he discovers that his new wife is also a Christian. Together they find the courage and hope to survive and eventually make a daring escape to the US, where they raise five children and begin a life-changing ministry to the Khmer people in exile in the US and back home in Cambodia.

This moving true story of survival against all odds shows readers that out of war, fear, despair, and betrayal, God can bring hope, faith, courage, restoration--and even romance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801009099
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Les Sillars (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary; PhD, University of Texas at Austin) has been a journalist for over twenty years, seventeen of those with "WORLD "magazine. He is a journalism professor at Patrick Henry College in Virginia and holds graduate degrees in Old Testament studies and journalism. His writing has also appeared in "The Weekly Standard," the" National Post," and "Touchstone" magazine.

Table of Contents

Author's Note 11

Prologue 15

1 Civil War 19

2 Talking Theology 31

3 Two Worlds 42

4 Streets of Fear 50

5 The Khmer Rouge 61

6 Into the Countryside 74

7 Water Buffalo Island 83

8 Angka the Idol 93

9 Don't Let Them Count One 108

10 A Strange Dance 116

11 Something Rotten 124

12 A God of Disorder 136

13 Super Great Leap Forward 144

14 Rebels Within 151

15 The Plan 158

16 The Other Plans 166

17 Equally Yoked 177

18 Inevitably, Angka 183

19 Risking Angka's Wrath 194

20 A Killing Field 201

21 Hard Waiting 210

22 Free Trading 219

23 Traveling Mercies 227

24 Church of the Lord Jesus Christ 234

25 Family Ties 245

26 Settling in Seattle 250

27 Home Again 260

28 Such a Time as This 270

29 …And of the Holy Ghost 279

Epilogue 285

Acknowledgments 299

Notes 301