The Missing Member
134 pages
price: $12.99
ISBN 978-0-9824428-4-5

 

About the Authors

Earl Martin is the creator and consultant of the  Straight-Up Club Mysteries series. He has served as a youth pastor, evangelist, senior pastor, and in many other ministry related areas. Earl lives in West Bend, WI with his wife, Amy and their two daughters, Anna and Katie.

 

 

Jesse Muehlbauer is the writer of the Straight-Up Club Mysteries series. He has served and worked in a variety of ministries, including child evangelism, street-witnessing, drama production, and Christian broadcast media. Jesse lives in Milwaukee, WI.

 

 

More about the author and book

Earl N. Martin is the founder and executive director of Mystery Ministries, Eph. 6:19. He was saved as a child, grew up going to Christian school and graduated from Maranatha Baptist Bible College in 1988. He married his best friend from college, Amy Romkee, in 1986. Upon graduation, he and Amy served for two and one half years in a local church north of Detroit, Michigan working with the youth and music program. They surrendered to full time youth evangelism and traveled the U.S. for four years. They followed this ministry by serving in Franklin, TN at Spring Meadow Baptist Church with the youth and music for four years while still traveling part time. Earl believed the Lord was leading him to plant the Still Waters Baptist Church in West Nashville. After two years of much labor Still Waters merged with another local church south of Nashville, where Earl and Amy served from 2001-04 in areas such as Adult Sunday school teachers as well as the music and children’s ministry. In October of 2004 the Martins moved to Hoopeston, IL where Earl was called to the Youth Pastor position at First Baptist Church. He served with Pastor Steve Nelson until he retired, then stayed on at the church for another year as the church searched for their next senior pastor. In June of 2008, they moved to the Milwaukee, WI area where Earl worked for six months at VCY America, a conservative Christian radio and television network. The Martins did not look settle on a house until they found a church. That church ended up being the First Baptist Church of West Bend, WI. www.firstbaptistwb.org. In January, 2009, The church extended a call to Earl to serve as an assistant pastor overseeing family ministries.

 

Excerpt from the book

THE MOON’S metallic glow was suddenly interrupted, as a beam of light streaked across the sky. Momentarily, all attention was diverted from the beauty of nighttime. Alarms began to sound. Footsteps echoed off of the pavement that surrounded the prison facility. Searchlights arced back and forth.

Someone had escaped.

Armed guards with trained attack dogs paced the compound ferociously. The entire prison was put under lockdown as supervisors, security personnel and other staff assessed the situation.

Meanwhile, one hundred yards away, Vincent “Jack” Milton was trying to catch his breath. As soon as he had worked his way through the barbed-wire fencing that surrounded the prison complex, he started for the woods at breakneck speed. But his quick burst of energy subsided almost as soon as it had begun. Beads of sweat formed on his brow as he peered through some foliage. Several guards were already heading in his general direction. If escape was going to be possible, he had to keep moving. The plan was easier said than done however—especially since Jack Milton was already exhausted. Doing his best to control his raspy panting, Jack suddenly ducked down as one of the blinding searchlights lit up the trees and shrubs around him. Waiting for the beam of light to pass over his area, he slowly turned and headed deeper into the wooded darkness. Jack Milton could hear the blaring sirens, the dogs and many armed security officers not too far behind him. A renewed sense of determination pulsed through his body. He ran, and would keep on running…until he got what he was after.
Revenge.