FROM THE PUBLISHER

News reports of Bill Robinson's 1990 murder, in the Christian Children's Home he founded in South Lebanon deeply grieved Tommy Barton, a complete stranger in Middle Tennessee. When Tommy told his wife, Laverne, the injustice of it made her heart cry out, "How long, Oh, Lord?" (Rev. 610). Concern led Laverne to search for the family who had suffered such a great misfortune. That was the beginning of a friendship which deepened over the next three years with Bill's widow, Barbara.
It took a 1993 miracle for Barbara to get out of Lebanon to come visit the Bartons on the heels of fighting which the Associated Press described as a "human catastrophe of tragic magnitude." Everyone who heard the story realized God had brought Barbara out. The impact was so great that Laverne was inspired to begin developing a film project, primarily because she wanted people to see that God could, and would, bring any of us through anything. The Bartons didn't expect their leap of faith to entangle them in a serpentine quagmire, but it did. Deliverance came through a better understanding of the situation, via 1997-2000 news and the 1998 arrival of copies of two letters Bill wrote the week before he was murdered. Insights were gained from one of the letters into the past problems Bill had experienced with Middle East Television (MET), an affiliate of the Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) founded by Pat Robertson.

Seven days before he was murdered, a possibly biased, Bill Robinson had written the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs in Washington, D. C., to apply for an exemption to passport travel restrictions for himself and his family. In that letter Bill claimed, "There have been numerous newspaper articles and radio broadcasts from Lebanon and even Moscow as well which have been intended to destroy the work of the Children's Home. These stories originated with three men who are employed as News Director, Cameraman, and Editor by Middle East Television...."

It was never specifically proven that the then MET employees played any role in the media driven smear campaign against Bill. After his murder, The Jerusalem Post reported that Bill "had been the victim of a smear campaign...(one that)...became a national issue...regularly reported in the Lebanese press. A Lebanese source said the baseless reports had been widely believed. 'People have been killed for a lot less in Lebanon,' the source noted."

Three days before his murder Bill had written a lengthy letter to Pat Robertson, telling him of the horrendous trouble some of his MET employees were giving him. Norway's Captain Soeren Kjendlie was an eye witness to one of the life threatening incidents Bill described to Robertson.

Hours before Bill was murdered he met with MET management about the problems he was having with some of their employees. Following Bill's murder three then MET employees were jailed and released.

And then plot twists that will defy the imaginations of Hollywood's best scriptwriters, put a new spin on this stupendous true story. It will convince readers that God revealed the depths of deception, treachery, and corruption from which He delivered Barbara and her children. And that God truly can bring any of us through anything.

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