What would you say if, after 86 years of walking faithfully with God through poverty, suffering, and the constant threat of death, someone finally offered you a way out? But there's a catch: it will cost you was everything.   What would it take for you to say those words — He has never done me wrong — after eight and a half decades of following Jesus through pain and pressure and the kind of quiet, grinding faithfulness that history rarely remembers?  

In this episode of God's Power Stories—in our series In the Margins—we're in Smyrna, which is modern-day Izmir, Turkey. This is one of the most layered, storied cities in all of human history. But before we get to the ancient streets, we have to talk about the hotel. After two solid days of travel, John and I arrive completely depleted, and what should be a simple check-in becomes something else en ...