JOE MARKKO is widely recognized as one of America's earliest pioneers in a distinct sub-category of Rock 'n Roll, Contemporary Christian Music. The author of seven books, including biographies of ancient Hebraic heroes and a discourse on the person of God, he draws from a life unusually rich in experience and tragedy. Described as “brutally honest,” the work of this former musician, stoner, pastor, church builder, father and failure remains intensely personal, intensely hopeful.

When Someday Comes: Memoirs of a Survivor is Joe's published autobiography. Written as a record for his children and grandchildren, When Someday Comes winds through a childhood of abandonment and crime, the violence-plagued demonstrations of the 1968 Democratic Convention, 10 years in a Christian cult that took the lives of three people, electrocution with 27,000 volts of electricity, the shotgun-shooting death of his oldest child, falling from grace as an ordained clergyman and the long road to physical, spiritual and emotional healing. A cautionary tale for our times, When Someday Comes remains a story of hope, a contemporary tale of "beauty for ashes." 

For more of Joe's writings, including several books written while serving as Pastor with the Assemblies of God, visit his blog, The Gathering Time.