BEFORE THEY BRING THE BACKHOE

If you have done any traveling, you know the crazy situations you canfind yourself in. The author has traveled to 113 countries on all sevencontinents. Feeling your way through different customs and cultures,you often end up laughing at your embarrassing and comical situations. Woodrow Kroll gained a reputation on radio as a uniquely understandableteacher of God s Word. Much of his success was due to the humor woventhroughout his teaching. BEFORE THEY BRING THE BACKHOE reflectson his sixty years of Christian ministry and the precarious and hilarioussituations he found himself in. For example, once his brother and he hadpreached at a church in New Hampshire, but a snowstorm strandedthem and they had to sleep on a hide-a-bed in the pastor s living roomwith a cat. Unfortunately, through the night, his brother and he rolledtogether and suffocated the cat, until Woodrow revived it. He recallsa heated bartering session with an Arab shopkeeper in Jerusalem who,when the shouting and haggling were over, the shopkeeper kissedWoodrow on both cheeks and said, I like you. You have to read YouTouch That You re A Dead Man. Funny stuff. And, in the tiny townwhere he grew up, their only bridge was stolen. These 201 stories range from mildly humorous to knee-smackinghilarious. They are the kind of stories you will want to phone a friendand read to them.