Dear prospective reader, these books are all based on my having come into a vital relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, the risen and returning Messiah, who gifts those who receive Him with the presence of His indwelling Spirit. These writings were created in dependence upon His leading, and for God’s glory. They are based on the unchanging Word of God as best I’ve been able to discern its meanings and applications to life. May my imperfect knowledge and skill not mislead. May you be somehow blessed to spend time focused on life’s most basic relationships and most urgent issues.
Kay Bascom
The Author's Viewpoint
Dr. Charles and Kay Bascom, with their three young sons, first left the United States in 1964 to serve with SIM in medical missions in Ethiopia. The Bascoms returned there periodically through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. This drew them into the experience of the Kale Heywet Church community during the Ethiopian Marxist Revolution. When it was over, Kay assisted SIM’s former East Africa Director in preparing a book for the KHC documenting the Church’s two-decade repression under Marxism. That process involved interviews with over a hundred people.
Kay longed to make these testimonies known to Americans, and out of that exposure a short version was published in 2001, titled Hidden Triumph in Ethiopia. The fuller version found no publisher until, surprisingly, it was asked for in 2017 due to mounting persecution of Christians worldwide. Subsequently, the International Institute of Religious Freedom in 2018 published the larger document under the title Overcomers. God’s deliverance during those two decades reads like a modern chapter of the Acts of the Spirit.
Because conditions in America have since then been giving Kay a sense of déjà vu, she went a step further to provide an Overcomers Study Guide that might amplify the Overcomers book’s usefulness to those who are facing similar totalitarian subjugation today. This Overcomers Study Guide, published in 2020, is available by downloading it free from this website.
Meanwhile, between their journeys to Africa, Dr. Bascom practiced medicine in Kansas, and the Bascom family enjoyed participating with a dynamic group of believers called Wellspring Fellowship. (Nancy Swihart’s book, On Kitten Creek, tells the Wellspring story.) In their local church, Charles and Kay taught Bible studies which led to their panoramic biblical overview called The Messiah Mystery, and Kay’s three shorter Bible studies, All, In, and Therefore. Now in 2020, Jubilee Journey adds another Bible-based exploration, this one intertwined with accounts of her own journey toward God’s ultimate Jubilee. The 2024 book, Oh Jew, Oh Gentile, Why, addresses urgent questions affecting the Middle East and America today.