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This seond volume of John Stott's authorised biography covers the period from the 1960s to the 1990s, from the time of his established ministry, through his world mission to his later years. In 1960 when John, was the established Rector of All Souls Church, author of several books, and already something of a world traveller had clearly emerged as a widely respected evangelical leader of energy and vision. This is a fascinating story which includes many surprising tales including, being lost in the Amazon jungle and diving in the cloudy waters of an Arctic estuary to recover a body for Christian burial. The story of John Stott's ministry from 1960 to the present remarkably parallels the story of the rise of evangelical Christianity during the same years. His work and influence have had a major impact on the church worldwide in those four critical decades. From his home base at All Souls in London, Stott reached out to embrace a wide number of strategic Christian causes, including Scripture Union, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (known in England as Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and the Evangelical Alliance (with its TEAR Fund) among others. In the Church of England he made signal contributions at the 1967 and 1977 National Evangelical Anglican Congresses. These years also saw his dramatic confrontation with Martyn Lloyd-Jones over the place of evangelicals in the Church of England. His leadership was crucial as well to the success of the International Congresses on World Evangelization at Lausanne (1974) and Manila (1989), which have continued to have major influence on the church to this day. His global influence was felt further through the organizations he established--the Langham Trust, the London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity and the Evangelical Literature Trust. During this time he also published over forty books that have sold over eight million copies worldwide, as well as serving as editor for the series of expositions appreciated around the world known as 'The Bible Speaks Today'. All this and more led prominent churchman David Edwards to consider John Stott to be, apart from William Temple (who died as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1944), the most influential clergyman in the Church of England during the twentieth century. In this book is found the history of the maturing of the evangelical movement worldwide and the story of one of its most pivotal and inspirational leaders.