COIL Recruits: COIL Short Story Collections, #2

By D. I. Telbat

NEW Cover and MORE Stories Added!

COIL Recruits for Christ, a COIL Short Story Collection, Book 2 by D.I. Telbat, introduces *COIL characters who apply faith and courage in the midst of tribulation. In a world void of peace, these men and women find hope in Jesus Christ, who inspires them to triumph even in the face of tragedy.

Each COIL short story presents spiritual principles within gripping fiction and real-life scenarios. The heroes are both ordinary and extraordinary, and their problems are our problems. But one thing is certain, regardless of the circumstances, God's people overcome by faith, hope, and love. When they seem to be defeated, God shows He is still reliable!

Emerging from spiritual darkness into the life-giving Light, these victorious Christians cling to the COIL motto with determination, having learned that there is no redemption without sacrifice.

This COIL Recruits for Christ Collection has about 26,000 words, and includes seventeen short stories, plus a BONUS Chapter from Distant Contact, Book One of The COIL Legacy.

*Not familiar with COIL? The Commission of International Laborers is a group of Christian servants who handle difficult missions around the world. They offer support for missionaries in other lands, and often rescue persecuted Christians from volatile situations. Learn more about COIL in The COIL Series, beginning with the Prequel, Dark Edge.

D.I. Telbat has several more Christian (Non-COIL) Short Story Collections for your reading pleasure! Now enjoy Visions of Courage, and Visions of Faith, and Visions of Hope, as well as Mother's Day Short Stories, and Father's Day Short Stories. Watch for more collections to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: In Season Publications
• Release date: Jul 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386928140

D. I. Telbat

D. I. (David) Telbat is a Christian author best known for his clean, Suspenseful Fiction with a Faith Focus, which includes his bestseller and award-winning COIL Series, Steadfast Series, and several other suspense and End Times novels. He wrote his first book at age 14, and hasn't stopped since!Through David's weekly D.I. Telbat Newsletter, he provides free Christian short stories, or his Author Reflections, or his novel news. Many of D.I. Telbat's stories are about persecuted Christians—their sacrifice, suffering, and rescues.Getting into trouble with the law as a young man became a turning point in David's life. The Lord used that experience to draw David into a personal relationship with Him. Re-focusing his life for Christ, David now seeks to honor God with his life and his writing.David studied writing in college, and worked for a time in the newspaper field, but he is now doing what he loves most--writing and Christian ministry. When not busy writing Christian novels, you will find him teaching/preaching/discipling, and writing curriculum for Christians in the prison system.Though D.I. Telbat is currently living on the West Coast, he has kept his home office in the Northwest U.S. where his assistant, Dee, lives and helps with his research and editing needs.There is no redemption without sacrifice.

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COIL Recruits for Christ

A COIL Short Story Collection

Book 2

D.I. Telbat

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Updated 1/2023

There is no redemption without sacrifice.

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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locals, organizations, ministries, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Dedication

This collection is dedicated to the ordinary Christian who is looking for God to do the extraordinary. May you live boldly in your brokenness to reach others in their brokenness!

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to God for His continued grace in this chaotic world. He preserves us according to His will to accomplish a little more in His name. Thanks also to the team of believers who participated in the production of this collection.

Table of Contents

Title and Copyright

Dedication

Prologue - Just COIL Fiction?

Recruited for Christ

I  – Noah

II  – Darya

III – The Nazarene's Sacrifice

Cameroon Honeymoon

Danny Vance Adventures

#1 - Fiery Island

#2 - Ethiopian Test of Faith

#3 - Pakistani Test of Faith

#4 - Saudi Arabian Underground Faith

#5 - Colombian Test of Faith

#6 - Syrian Undercover Surprise

Still Useful

COIL Support Staff

I  – COIL Courtship

II  – The Engineer

III – Intentional Target

IV – Orphan Angels

V  – Solo But Not Alone

VI – Tested Efficiency

Other Books by D.I. Telbat

About the Author

BONUS Chapter: Distant Contact

Prologue

Just COIL Fiction?

D.I. Telbat

Lydia Morris leaned against her car in the growing darkness of a shopping mall parking lot. Her eyes were glued to her Kindle screen as she read story after story of Christian triumph. When the parking lot lights blinked on and all the other cars had left, Lydia remained, her heart drawn into the passion and boldness in the lives of God's people. Her soul cried out to be part of the mighty things that God was doing around the world, especially with an organization like COIL. But, of course, COIL was just fiction.

When a man quietly approached her from the side, Lydia didn't notice him until it was too late. He struck her once on the jaw making her fall to the ground. Lydia's eReader clattered across the pavement and she winced as her elbows were scuffed to the bone. Glancing around her, she found she was completely alone with her attacker.

Give me your wallet! He stood over her with a knife, his hand trembling. His voice seemed uncertain behind a bandana that covered half his face. And your ring! Now! Money and jewelry!

I don't wear any jewelry. Lydia crawled to pick up her eReader. The frame was cracked, but the screen was still shining. And I just maxed out my card getting bread and milk.

You're lying! The man turned left and right, checking for witnesses. There was still no one around. Empty your pockets!

Lydia felt blood trickle from her elbow wounds. She was no COIL agent, but she didn't need to be part of COIL to live boldly for Christ, even in an Ohio parking lot.

Silver and gold I don't have for you, Lydia said as she rose to her feet, but what I do have, I give to you. Here, you need to read this.

She offered him the eReader. He yanked it from her hand, and Lydia thought he was about to smash it on the pavement, but he hesitated. Something had caught his eye, and in those seconds, he read a few lines, then a little more.

Lydia prayed as he read. At that frantic moment, she couldn't recall which story of the COIL collection she'd been reading, but she believed God would use whatever was on the screen. After all, COIL stories weren't just about entertaining readers. They were about motivating hearts toward simple faith in an extraordinary God!

What's this about? The attacker pointed his knife at Lydia. Some person saved these people's lives? So what?

Their lives seemed lost. Their souls seemed beyond saving. Lydia lifted her chin. She didn't consider herself a courageous woman. After all, she was only an office administrator. But God's strength gave her . . . something undefinable. When our hearts are the most troubled, that's when God's love is the most discernible. You must know the story of the Cross. You're looking for valuables. From my heart, that's the most valuable thing I can share with you.

This story is just fiction! The man held up the eReader. I need money—cash, now!

"No, you want money. I'm giving you what you need. Look. You want what's in my pocket? Fine. Lydia drew a folded church bulletin from her back pocket. One of the elders' home address was printed on the bottom. Look at this. See this address? This is where you can find what you're really looking for."

The attacker accepted the bulletin and held it up to the parking lot lights.

What's this address for?

A man you need to talk to. You've got the guts to go to him. I know you do. Your past won't matter to him. He'll just embrace you. He'll care for you, like Jesus would.

You really don't have any money?

No. I wish I did. Lydia shrugged. I'd give it to you. Just go see that guy. His name is Paul. He cares about people like you and me.

The man seemed to waiver on his feet. The bulletin, the knife, and the eReader seemed to be too many items for him to hang on to. He hesitantly offered the device back to her, and she accepted it. When she thought he was about to say something more, he turned and ran away.

Lydia felt the tears on her cheeks as she watched him disappear beyond the lights. She needed to call Paul right away to tell him he might have a visitor. Her fear had been real, but somehow, the words to speak to her aggressor had flowed out. Somehow, she hadn't fainted. Somehow, she had spoken like a confident Christian.

Somehow? Lydia chuckled to herself, and held up her eReader, knowing that Christ had inspired her. Obviously, these COIL stories aren't just fiction!

The End of Just COIL Fiction?

Recruited for Christ

This first group of stories takes a snapshot of several different lives. These lives seem to be unlikely positions from which to serve Christ, but when an offer is made, faithfulness is just a step of repentance away. Each of us can, with a little creativity and prayer, adjust our current lives to involve ourselves in something useful for Christ. We each have a ministry waiting for us to answer to, especially locally.

Noah

In this first story in this series, we meet a man with a shameful past and a preset situation that seems too difficult to leave behind. It has been of increasing importance to me to show that the strong in the world are still in need of Jesus Christ.

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Recruited for Christ I

D.I. Telbat

From a store window reflection, Noah Laden watched the tall black man in a gray suit. He had to be a Fed, the way he pretended to be waiting for a bus. Noah considered his escape routes, but traffic was bad in the city this time of day. He'd known the US government would come for him sooner or later, even though he'd not broken any laws—technically. Not in the US, anyway.

Farther down the street, Noah noticed another man in a blue suit. Oh, he met a woman with a baby stroller and they walked away together. If the black man across the street was really a Fed, he was probably working with