About

Louis McCall was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Northwestern University where he received a Ph.D. Later, he also attended the National War College of the National Defense University. Louis was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University prior to a 36-year career in the U.S. Department of State, first as a Foreign Service officer and then as a foreign affairs Civil Service employee where he served as Consul General in Florence, Italy, Chargé d’Affaires in Brunei, U.S. Representative to the Republic of San Marino, and Assistant Inspector General. He lived in or worked in, at least temporarily, 60 countries on six continents. Whether in academia or as a diplomat, Louis found opportunities to live his faith, including part-time ministry of the good news in word and in song, including co-laboring with missionaries, national church leaders, and the underground church. When ministering early in his diplomatic career from the pulpit of a great church in Calcutta, India, Louis said to those in attendance that he had determined not to be ashamed of the gospel of Christ. That has been a commitment he has endeavored to keep over the years. In his final two years at the Department of State he organized and led the National Day of Prayer observances in the Department.

Now, in his new career as an author, he has the pleasure of greater freedom in sharing what God has placed in his heart. Louis is active simultaneously in two churches in Washington, D.C. One is a multi-site non-denominational church and the other a Catholic church where he is a regular cantor, though not a Catholic himself. He has managed this with the blessing and full knowledge of pastors and priests. This has been an outgrowth of his early association with a mixed protestant-Catholic charismatic house-based worship group, his association with the late Mother Theresa of Calcutta, his Catholic charismatic wife, and guest ministry in churches and bible schools of various denominations while living in or working in other countries.

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ãThe attending Cardinal receives my book for the Pope and passes it to an assistant

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ãI explain to the Cardinal that the book is for Pope Francis

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ãPope Francis blesses my book

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ãI request, in Italian, for Pope Francis to bless my book on prayer, According to Your Word Lord, I Pray

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ãPope Francis prays for my wife Lenora

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ãOn CfaN set with Evangelist Daniel Kolenda

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ãSharing a laugh with CfaN President Daniel Kolenda

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ãWith Pastors Dennis and Donna Pisani of Capital City Church

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ãCOGIC Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake receiving presentation of the book at West Angeles Cathedral.

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ãNear water towers in Kuwait City, Kuwait

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ãAt ruins of Palmyra, Syria

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ãChatting with people internally displaced by violence in Sierra Leone

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ãAt Angkor Wat in Cambodia

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ãAt Giza, Egypt

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ãAt Qatab Minar ancient tower near New Delhi, India

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ãWith Secretary of State John Kerry

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ãAt Crusader Castle in Syria

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ãWith CFAN founder Reinhard Bonnke

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ãAt Jungle Wat in Cambodia

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ãAt Giza, Egypt

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ãDuring guest ministry at retreat in Zambian Copperbelt

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ãWith Bible School students in Zambia for morning devotions

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ãWith a local family in the Zambian countryside

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ãWith an Aborigine gentleman in the “top end” of the Australian outback

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ãIn Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei as acting Ambassador (Charge d’Affaires)

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ãDoing street evangelism in Zambia

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ãPreaching at a newly planted church in the Zambian Copperbelt region

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