There's a Sheep in My Bathtub: Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Brian Hogan

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Genres

Biography & Memoir

Nonfiction

Religion & Spirituality

Publication

Disciple Making Mentors (2017), Edition: Tenth Anniversary Updated ed., 266 pages

Description

There's a Sheep in my Bathtub is the story of an American family (the author's) as they survive and even thrive in the bizarre and topsy-turvy world of post-communist Mongolia from 1992-96. The Hogan family served as English teachers and worked in Asia largest copper mine in addition to helping start Mongolia's first movement of multiplying fellowships of Jesus followers (now numbering over 40,000). Replete with photo illustrations, this humorous and, at times, heart-wrenching memoir chronicles an intensely personal bird's eye view of the cataclysmic changes that sweep Mongolia after the fall of totalitarianism.You will laugh, you will cry, but you will not be able to put down this adventure at the ends of the earth.

User reviews

LibraryThing member johnavery

There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub is a remarkable book. It tells the story of the small team of missionaries that God used to plant a dynamic indigenous church in Mongolia. In the course of a few years, Mongolia went from being a nation with hardly any Christians to a nation with its own church

planting church. Brian tells the story with wisdom, humor, and transparency about the struggles and loss his own family experienced. The book is a must for anyone with any interest in church planting because it is one of the healthiest and most anointed examples that I have heard of—it will be a classic of missions history.

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LibraryThing member meggyweg

Although I’m not a Christian, I did enjoy this tale of spreading Christianity (“church planting”) in Mongolia in the early 1990s, just after the fall of Communism. The author’s stories of mixing with a culture much different from his own make for interesting reading for anyone interested in

travel books. (For example, he initially struggled to make any converts because, it turned out, his Mongolian Bible translation was using the wrong word for “God.”) The story about the death of his infant son, and how both his family and his nascent church coped with it, was very touching. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in travel stories, and especially to Christians.

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