“NOW IT IS SO THAT IN THE GOSPEL, CHRIST OFFERS US HIS ENTIRE FULLNESS, HIS RICHES, HIS FORGIVENESS, AND HIS GRACE, INDEED HIMSELF. ... OH, SAY YES TO CHRIST AND HIS SALVATION! BECOME POSITIVE IN THE DEEPEST SENSE OF THE WORD! ‘LAY HOLD OF ETERNAL LIFE, TO WHICH YOU ALSO WERE CALLED!’ (1 TIM. 6:12)” 

Two decades after the Great War, Germany was changing. It was a ‘New Germany’. The newly appointed Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, had indicated his support of “positive Christianity,” an enigmatic term that, at least for the moment, would leave the door open for evangelistic work in Germany. 

However, in this new Germany, the mantra had become: “Everyone is free to be saved in his own way.” Under this banner, German society had become an admixture of traditional Christian religion, rising atheism, and a revival of ancient German folk paganism. 

Against this backdrop of uncertainty and even hostility, Franz and his fellow Volk Missionaries embarked on a new and exciting missionary endeavor: a Tent Mission which would bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the German Volk (people). Franz could not have foreseen the events of the coming decade which would soon unfold and prove the timeliness of their mission work. This English translation of Franz’s 1934 account reminds us that in every generation, in every circumstance, in every nation our cry must be: We remain missionaries!