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About the Author
Kimberly Smith Highland is President of Make Way Partners, an international organization committed to prevent and combat human trafficking. She is also a published author. Passport through Darkness, her first book, received wide acclaim including the INSPY Best Creative Nonfiction Award. She blogs regularly, sharing rich and reflective stories from her experiences of finding Hope in all corners of the world, including in the vilest forms of human trafficking and her personal, daily struggles with faith and courage. Powerful and well respected news sources such as TIME.com has also published Kimberly's writing.Fighting to end human trafficking in the darkest corners of our world, skeptics declared many of the tasks set before her as impossible. However, fueled by compassion and incensed by grotesque injustice, Kimberly led Make Way Partners to the successful completion of building the first orphanage on the border of Darfur, Sudan. Building supplies had to be transported nearly 2,000 miles over hostile terrain with no roads or bridges. Today MWP continues to build upon that groundbreaking success and leads a powerful, indigenously based anti-trafficking network spanning Sudan and South Sudan.Kimberly is passionate about helping others to discover their unique purpose in this world. She leads the daily operations of MWP, and divides her time between each of its international locations, writing, and public speaking in the US and abroad. Kimberly also enjoys blazing new trails with others on their journey-most notably her horse and constant companion, Rusty-the-True-that rescued her along the way. Â
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Product details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: David C Cook (January 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781434702128
ISBN-13: 978-1434702128
ASIN: 143470212X
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.6 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
292 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#611,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The author and her husband began being missionaries in Spain and then moved on to help in an orphanage in Portugal. Sadly, they soon picked up on the unbridled sexual abuse in that orphanage, and they prosecuted the owner-operators, who fled.The Smiths wondered how many more vulnerable children were out there—children without any voice. Soon, they would find out.This book is the stuff of nightmares. I am positive that the author made Passport Through Darkness as palatable as possible. She only told part of what she had seen and experienced, but it is still difficult to take in. I personally would only recommend this book to mature adults. It is too graphic and raw for teens and even young adults. It includes the sexual exploitation of children, rape, extramarital temptations, death—so much death, and sometimes you feel hopeless. I mean, who can fight against such evils? The enemy is real.The author and her husband visit Sudan and see for themselves horrors that so touch their hearts that they start an association, Make Way Partners. They try to involve others in saving orphans.The author goes back alone to Sudan. (Her husband is quite ill with diabetes.) She teams up with a native pastor, who is trying to save children. The dangers are brutal—hyenas, slavery, rape, sickness, early pregnancies—and the small, safe place doesn’t have room for many of the children. She decides to go back to the United States and raise funds to build a large, fenced compound for the orphans.As she goes around to speak to churches and other groups, she runs into the understandable problem that people are being emotionally disturbed by the realities. Could she please not come back?Besides compassion, one of the huge positive takeaways from this book is the importance of transparency in marriage. The author describes the challenges she experiences in her marriage and how she finally came to tell her husband all the facts about her time in Sudan. It was hard for her to do, since some of her experiences were so horrible she didn’t want to share them. But, it was important for him to understand her—his other half. She talks about the importance of refreshing times as a couple, and much more. I very much appreciated this aspect of Passport Through Darkness.I feel at a loss whether to recommend this book or not. It is raw and brutally honest, yet you get the feeling there is so much more to the story—and you don’t want to hear it. I feel that I personally profited by it, because it exposes the plight of too many children in our world. It also motivates me to pray for workers and funds to help these vulnerable little ones. I appreciated very much the emphasis on transparency in marriage—even in the super ugly stuff—and I feel her story is profitable in that aspect as well. This is not a feel good book. It is not pretty. It doesn’t uplift. But, it is well written and certainly has merit for the reasons I describe.
Kimberly L. Smith and her husband Milton were a `normal' American couple, but something seemed to be missing. When they discovered that God was calling them to live a life on the edge, a life most Christians would sadly call `radical', they had to make a choice: continue in a life of comfort, where they could have as much or as little of God as they liked, or surrender it all and follow Him at all costs, even if they're next step is off the edge of a cliff.This is how the book begins. But it doesn't even begin to describe the journey two ordinary people embarked on when they stepped out in faith with God. Told by Kimberly, we follow them through the beginnings of missionary work, that leads them into eye-opening discoveries of some of the horrific evils at work in this world. At each turn, they can choose to go back to the comfort of life as they knew it, or continue walking step by step with God. They take up the fight against human trafficking, famine, disease, genocide, slavery, and so much more. Because of Milton's health, Kimberly steps out into the front lines of the battle field alone, and the war almost kills her.From a literary standpoint, this was an extremely well written book, full of beautiful language and a storyline that flows off of the lips of the author like honey. Yet, this was the hardest book to finish that I have ever read. I `know' of the suffering of people in other countries. But Kimberly takes us on a journey that holds nothing back in describing unimaginable horrors, and like a child peeking through their fingers, I wanted to cover my eyes and stop looking as I read. I wept through the entire book, yet it was impossible to stop. If those people had to endure such unimaginable pain and suffering, how could I not even listen to the cries of their voices?One of the most appalling parts of the book was not the suffering of the people described. It was the reaction of the people here at home who Kimberly and Milton shared their story with. I believe apathy to be one of the greatest evils in our country. We all feel bad for a second, then pick up our iPhones and check to see what new drama our friends have on Facebook. I'm still so emotionally raw from this book, I probably should not be reviewing it yet. Yet this is a book I feel every Christian should read. It is a wake up call. Where are you, warriors of Christ who are willing to storm the gates of hell?? This morning, clean drinking water from the tap never tasted so good and the roof over my head never felt so secure. I looked at all my children, and cried again as the thought of even one of them begging me for food or being tortured before my eyes, slammed into me.This book is not complete darkness. Because with God, even the darkness is like light (Ps 139). Throughout the book, pearls of beauty and light shine to illuminate both the trials of Kimberly and the people around her. Kimberly herself is almost swallowed by the darkness, yet through it, God shines through and restores her soul to a place of healing and beauty.This book deserves more than 5 stars. I would (and will) recommend it to everyone. The only warning is that it is very, very graphic.
An amazing story of how obedience to God's call brings Kim to Africa and opens her heart to the "least of these." I feel her pain when she is trying to save lives and grieves for the ones she is unable to help. I appreciate her candor in sharing how this burden from the Lord affected her marriage. Her husband was too ill to travel with her and it was hard for her to share with him all that was happening on her trips. I admire the absolute faith and trust in God that it required to drive hours in the desert looking for a stuck truck, like a needle in a haystack and finding God faithful. She paid a great price for her ministry in Africa. If this book doesn't disturb your spirit as you read it, I wonder if you are indeed alive. Despite the difficult details she has included of her trips to Africa, I highly recommend that every believer in Jesus Christ should read this book. God bless you Kim Smith!
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