Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

you?” Mohammed replied, “They said if I hit the gas and go, Allah will kill me.”

Bill reared back his fist and hit Mohammed with a powerful shot to his arm. Then Bill shouted, “If you don’t go, I’m gonna’ kill you.” We were surrounded and something had to happen fast. Suddenly as I looked out the front windshield again, I saw a sight something straight out of a movie, like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or something. Rudy and Brian started grabbing the men and throwing them off the motorbikes one by one. Then they took the bikes and hurled them into the ditches on either side of the van. Scared and not knowing what to do, instantly Mohammed popped the clutch and the van shot forward. As he hit the accelerator, and the van took a leap into the air, Rudy and Brian were running alongside us and jumped back into the van through the open side door. Mohammed was so shaken, he shouted out, “I need a cigarette!” I shouted right back, “I need one too.” I wasn’t sure where that came from because I had not smoked a cigarette since trying to look cool in my teen years, I think all that was adrenaline talking as we were in the throws of trying to escape these cunning kidnappers and evil doers. While the kidnappers were stunned, Rudy and Brian began to yell out, “GO! GO! Let’s GO!”

As we looked back through the rear window, the men on motorbikes had recovered and they were chasing

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