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 PrintableVersion Digging ditchesThe latest chapter of an inspirational lifeMemoirs of a motivatorDIGGING DITCHES This is an unusual collection of memoirs from one of God’s special servants. Helen Roseveare’s books were core reading in Christian Unions for decades. Everyone who benefited then will benefit again now from this latest title. The title itself may seem obscure — it’s from 2 Kings 3.16 and the Lord’s command to Elisha in preparation for an attack of the Moabites. The book takes us through Dr. Helen’s years of travelling on behalf of WEC to bring the urgency of world mission to Christian Unions, conferences and churches in several countries. That kind of itinerant ministry is hard and lonely. Dr. Helen writes from the heart as she relates her own pain in some of those years. We benefit from a few of the talks she gave over different periods of her life, each in response to a particular burden placed on her heart. As a woman of prayer, she is sensitive to the Spirit’s leading in that way. We learn of spiritual truths which became very precious to her as she grew in her own understanding of Christ’s suffering for us, and of what it means to share in those sufferings. Helen Roseveare speaks and writes with authority. She served as a medical doctor in the Congo for 20 years, enduring all the hardship one would imagine, plus brutality and rape. She was prepared to return, indeed she wanted to return — after some time at home to care for her dying mother. But her mission resolved to make use of her speaking gifts instead, and she accepted the decision of her leaders. There are lessons in this book at all sorts of levels. Thousands have been mobilised to serve, to give and to pray, because of Helen Roseveare’s ministry. I have already lent my copy of this book to a friend, and ordered stocks for the church bookstall. Julia Cameron, © Evangelicals Now - January 2006 |
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