The Cross and the Switchblade

David Wilkerson When David Wilkerson heard those words in his heart late one night as he glanced at a picture in Life magazine, he was dumbfounded. The boys in question were members of a violent gang and on trial for murder. He, on the other hand, was a country preacher settled comfortably in a little mountain church in Pennsylvania. What could God possibly expect him to accomplish - in New York City, of all places? But the thought would not let him go - and his life and the lives of countless despairing teens were changed forever on account of it. This is the riveting story of the founding of Teen Challenge, an inner-city ministry that today maintains residential and crisis counseling centers around the globe. But even more, it is a story of how the most unlikely people can hear - and follow - God's call to do the impossible.