After twelve years of missionary work
in the northeast province of what was
the Belgian Congo, building up a simple
medical service, civil war erupted with
horrific effects. During the war Helen
was brutally beaten and raped and left
with no choice but to return to Britain
(this story is told in ‘Give me this
Mountain’).
She quickly returned to the Congo in
1966 to assist in the rebuilding of the
nation. She helped establish a new
medical school and hospital (for the
other hospitals that she built were
destroyed) and served there until 1973.
In the eight years following the war,
despite endless frustrations, again and
again God showed his unfailing guidance
and unstinted provision for her needs.
This book is the story of the joys and
adventures of re-establishing the
medical work, the church building
programme and the work of forgiveness,
necessary after the destruction of the
civil war.