Sorrow & Blood

• It is with reverence that I touch Sorrow and Blood. The data, reports, witnesses, and biblical reflections open before my eyes allow me and push me to see the faces of people who tell me with their lives that in Jesus Christ they found the meaning of life and of history. The world is not worthy of them (Heb 11:38) nor am I. But in grace they minister to our lives and to our generation, calling us all into a deeper commitment to being agents of God’s Kingdom in the corners of the world in which we live. I feel honored to be ministered by those who tell me, through suffering, that it is good and necessary to serve our Lord Jesus Christ and to live, or even die, for him. It’s an amazing work. Gloria Deo.

  — Dr. Valdir Steuernagel

• Sorrow and Blood is a powerful and comprehensive global study of persecution and suffering. Every follower of Christ who wants to be informed and inspired should read this book. It should be required reading for pastors, missionaries, activists, or any other Christian who wants to engage biblically in a complex world where millions of fellow believers are under great pressure or persecution for their faith.

  — Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe

• For most of us it is incomprehensible the suffering that our sisters and brothers have endured in many places around the globe for the sake of the Gospel. Sorrow and Blood is the best effort done by evangelical reflective practitioners to provide a comprehensive description and a deep analysis of what Christian suffering and martyrdom mean and what the situation looks like today. This is not just another book produced by the Mission Commission of WEA, but one of the most profound and challenging to read, particularly if you do it with an open mind and a warm heart.

  — Bertil Ekström

• As I read this book and write these lines, I am aware that right now native evangelical Christians are forced to leave their land and their towns in southern Mexico because of their faith. The question of religious persecution has become all pervasive and urgent, both in the European post-Christendom societies as well as in countries dominated by Islam and other religions. This book is a most valuable compendium and it should become required reading for future missionaries and mission educators. The rich diversity of nationalities, perspectives, and styles represented is a good example of how Christian missiology is becoming truly global.

  — Dr. Samuel Escobar

• With a wonderful balance of insight and passion this volume addresses the most neglected mark of the true church: suffering. Readers will not only be enlightened, but also deeply moved and challenged listening to voices from around the globe reflect theologically, report accurately, and testify personally on this topic. Sorrow and Blood is a profound and vital contribution to our understanding of the church and mission.

  — Dr. Craig Ott

Authors

• William D. Taylor
  William D. Taylor

  Dr. Bill Taylor (Dip, Moody; BA, NTU; ThM, DTS; PhD, University of Texas) was born (1940) and raised in Latin America. Following three years on IVCF staff in Texas, he and his wife, Yvonne, invested seventeen years in leadership training (Seminario Teológico Centroamericano) and church planting in Guatemala.
  
  Following two years on the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Bill served the Missions Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance for thirty years, twenty years as Executive Director, and ten as Senior Mentor. During this season he coordinated the MC publications and global missiology teams.
  
  Following the WEA decades, he founded https://www.taylorglobalconsult.org/ to focuses on consulting, teaching as adjunct at different seminaries, mentoring, writing and serving the CRUX Institute—an innovative Spanish-language apologetics platform. Bill has served the missionary movement for 62 years in theological education, leadership development, church planting and global networking. In singular ways, the 17 years in Latin America prepared him for 30 years in global ministry.
  
  Bill has written (English and Spanish) and edited a great diversity of books for the local church, the global mission movement. The WEA Mission Commission books were produced by William Carey Publishing. His most recent book is Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission, WCP, 2025. He is not completing his memoirs.
  
  Bill and Yvonne, a native Texan, were married in 1967. Together they have three children born in Guatemala, and eight grandchildren. Worshipping at Christ Church-Anglican, his highest passion is to finish well.

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• Antonia van der Meer
  Antonia van der Meer

  Antonia Leonora van der Meer, Brazilian with a Dutch background, served with IFES formany years in Brazil and Angola. Now at the Evangelical Missions Center in Brazil, she isdevelopment coordinator, dean, teacher, and mentor. She has a master’s in theology at theBaptist Brazilian Theological Faculty in São Paulo and a doctorate in missiology at the AsiaGraduate School of Theology in the Philippines. She has published several articles in Connections:The Journal of the WEA Mission Commission, in Global Missiology for the Twenty-firstCentury, in the Brazilian version of Perspectives, in Doing Member Care Well, in The Dictionaryof Mission Theology, and in the Atlas of Global Christianity. She wrote several books inPortuguese: an inductive Bible study (ABUEditora), a personal missionary story (Eu, umMissionário?), and a book on caring for Brazilian missionaries in contexts of suffering (MissionáriosFeridos).

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• Reg Reimer
  Reg Reimer

  Reg Reimer (MA, Fuller Theological Seminary) has served the kingdom of God in many capacities around the world, but describes himself foremost as a missionary to Vietnam.  After forty-five years of deep involvement there, he has become the acknowledged authority on Protestants in that enigmatic country.  He has reported much on Vietnam, but, as the situation required, anonymously- until now.

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