Dr. Helen Roseveare was een toegewijde medische missionaris wier leven diepgaand geloof en buitengewone veerkracht weerspiegelde. Haar belangrijke bijdragen in Congo omvatten de oprichting en wederopbouw van vitale gezondheidszorgfaciliteiten, vaak onder extreme tegenspoed. Ondanks immense persoonlijke beproevingen, waaronder gevangenschap en geweld, toonde ze een onwrikbare toewijding aan het dienen van de behoeftigen. Na haar terugkeer deelde haar krachtige bediening van spreken en schrijven een meeslepend verhaal van hoop, overleving en onwrikbaar geloof.
What place does 'sacrifice' have in the modern world? The Bible says it is central - and that sacrifice is not only a vital key to the future, it is the essence of a Christian's life, today. Helen Roseveare skilfully weaves stories of sacrifice together with Christian teaching on the subject to show you how sacrifice is the key to joy.
With deep humility Helen shares her faltering steps in the process of learning what it means to be holy as God is holy.
Helen Roseveare describes the true biblical meaning of the dynamic relationship between God, ourselves, and others.
Helen investigates why God gives us the valleys in our experience, trusting that they will be filled with life-giving water at God's appropriate timing.
Helen tells her story in a down-to-earth way - from playing cricket for the ladies' university team, to her return to Britain after five months as a hostage in rebel terrorist hands.
Helen tells stories from her experience that help us to understand the role of faith in our lives and how to strengthen it.
Helen Roseveare qualified as a doctor, packed up her life in England and set off to be a missionary in the belgian congo. Although living through a rebellion and being taken captive for several months, Helen's faith remained strong and she returned to the renamed 'Zaire' to serve the Lord by working with people there. Her experiences in Africa have been an encouragement to many and made her well known and loved throughout the world.
Helen returned to the Congo in 1966 to assist in the rebuilding of the nation. The story of the joys and adventures of re-establishing the medical work and the growing church.
What is our motivation for serving Jesus? Is it so that we might have good health and be wealthy? Galatians 1 tells us that the prosperity gospel is no gospel at all!.
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