Kay Bascom

Dr. Charles and Kay Bascom, with their three young sons, first left the United States in 1964 to serve with SIM in medical missions in Ethiopia.  The Bascoms returned there periodically through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.  This drew them into the experience of the Kale Heywet Church community during the Ethiopian Marxist Revolution.  When it was over, Kay assisted SIM’s former East Africa Director in preparing a book for the KHC documenting the Church’s two-decade repression under Marxism.  That process involved interviews with over a hundred people.

Kay longed to make these testimonies known to Americans, and out of that exposure a short version was published in 2001, titled Hidden Triumph in Ethiopia.   The fuller version however, found no publisher until surprisingly, it was asked for in 2017 due to mounting persecution of Christians worldwide.  Subsequently, the International Institute of Religious Freedom in 2018 published the larger document under the title  Overcomers.  God’s deliverance during those two decades reads like a modern chapter of the Acts of the Spirit. 

Because conditions in America have since then been giving Kay a sense of Déjà vu, she went a step further to provide an Overcomers Study Guide that might amplify the Overcomers book’s usefulness to those who are facing similar totalitarian subjugation today. This Overcomers Study Guide, published in 2020, is available by downloading it free from this website. 

Meanwhile, between their journeys to Africa, Dr. Bascom practiced medicine in Kansas, and the Bascom family enjoyed participating with a dynamic group of believers called Wellspring Fellowship.  (Nancy Swihart’s book, On Kitten Creek, tells the Wellspring story.) In their local church, Charles and Kay taught Bible studies which led to their panoramic biblical overview called The Messiah Mystery, and Kay’s three shorter Bible studies, ALL, IN, and THEREFORE. 

Now in 2020, Jubilee Journey adds another Bible-based exploration, this one intertwined with accounts of her own journey toward God’s ultimate Jubilee.