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Title: Baptised by Fire by Jack Hywel-Davies ISBN: 0-340-40740-9 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Baptised by Fire
Comment: This book is an auto-biography. The author, a pastor of his church, and a pilot, was heading home for thanksgiving, to be with his family. The weather was dreadful as he took off in his light aircraft. The carburettor froze and the engine stalled just after take off. He attempted to turn the plane and return to the airstrip as there was nowhere else to land, a task that he nearly completed sucessfully, but just managed to clip the last tree between him and a safe landing on the runway. The plane cartwheeled, crashed and exploded into a ball of flame. Jack was knocked unconscious, and when he came to, he was inside an inferno. Jack tried to release his seat belt but due to the force of the impact it had become jammed. In desperation, with his bare hands, Jack ripped the seat belt webbing in two. He was able to open the door and he fell from the plane into the snow and crawled away from the crash before passing out. Jack sustained horrific burns in the crash. For many weeks he was on the raw edge of survival. He describes a "meeting with Jesus" during this period where he was given a choice to live and carry out God's work, or if he felt the pain and suffering would be too great he could choose to die. The book describes the long slow road to recovery, the multitude of skin grafts and other operations, the love and support of his wife and his subsequent ministry. I have rated this with three stars because I think that although the story is a marvelous tale of courage, it was a bit drawn out in places.