Give Me This Mountain

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The illustrations in this hardcover, glossy book are lovely, depicting a wide range of colors, children and emotions. My daughter (4.5 years old) really loved flipping through the book on her own. When we read it together, the story was short and entertaining enough to hold her interest. It also sparked several great conversations! Helen had a keen sense of her failings and need of the Lord’s forgiveness, but it was her keener sense of being loved by Jesus that was central to her faith and accounted for her wholehearted service. During an interview for the London Women's Convention in 2010, she was asked for any advice to share with the next generation of women. Her response is filled with passion and wisdom: 'Have you fallen in love with Jesus? I know you know he died to save you; I know you know you ought to love him. But do you love the Lord Jesus? Not just as Saviour and Friend, but as Lord and Master. Is he all in all to you?… Are you allowing God to be totally in control of everything, because of your love for him?' (23) conclusion

She went on to serve the Lord over two decades in Africa, enduring war, imprisonment and great personal suffering along the way. Serving the Congo At first, Helen was based at Ibambi where she worked hard to set up a hospital and training centre. She was passionate to train national workers as 'nurse-evangelists', (10) who could use their medical skills as a springboard for taking the gospel to the Congolese. In 1955, four of her students passed the state examinations to qualify as assistant nurses. While rejoicing in their success, Helen was informed that the medical programme, and therefore herself, would be moved seven miles north, to Nebobongo, a disused leprosy colony. Here, she had to begin work from scratch. Initially she resented this change and was filled with anger. Seeing her rage, a fellow-missionary prayed for her, and Helen began to see that it was the Lord himself who was sending her to Nebobongo. (11) She fully trusted that God would use this move to make her more like Jesus, and she submitted willingly to his purposes. CFP | Living Faith: Willing to be Stirred as a Pot of Paint | Helen Roseveare". www.christianfocus.com . Retrieved 2016-12-09.Her friends later took her to a houseparty, and here she found faith in Christ. She bought a new Bible from the bookstall, and asked the speaker, Graham Scroggie, to write a verse in it. He chose Philippians 3.10, explaining that she now knew Christ, and would come to know the power of his resurrection. Then looking her straight in the eye he said: ‘And maybe one day God will give you the privilege of sharing in his sufferings.’ Indeed that priceless privilege would come. And through it, for the rest of her life, there was a sparkle in her eyes and a radiance in her smile whenever she spoke of Christ. Missionary candidate One of the major problems I had was in learning to live a consistent Christian life wherever God put me. I spent twenty years in Congo in Central Africa, where in many ways it was very easy to be a Christian — I was the only pale-skin among some eighty thousand dark-skinned people.

Are we available? We must not get huffy if he chooses one day not to use us and takes the rake or the fork and leaves us in the tool shed. That’s okay. He knows just the minute he wants us to do what he wants us to do and the niche he has for us. He wants to use all of us right through to the end. Coming around from anesthetic, I asked the nurse, “Would you open my Bible at the place where the marker is?” She did and propped it up in front of me. I looked at the open Bible and saw that it was opened at 2 Kings 3. I thought, How can God ever guide me from 2 Kings 3? I started to read the chapter and was praying, “God, please, I want a verse that says, ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ It has to be so clear I can’t miss it. It has to be so clear that when I share it with the mission they’ll know it’s your voice speaking.” I love that this collection of books features a different color on each cover, making it a fun collection to display in our daughter’s library. While the book appeals to my daughter, I think it will just as easily appeal to little boys as well and be a great addition to a church or school library and for homeschooling families! Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 in Hertfordshire, England. She was the second of five children, and described herself as 'endlessly active, restless with animal spirits, always in mischief, with an urge to excel, to be noticed' (1) - traits that would remain with her for life and which would underlie many of her personal trials as well as successes. She first resolved to become a missionary at the tender age of eight, whilst hearing about mission work in India (2) - 'When I grow up, I will go to tell other boys and girls about the Lord Jesus.' Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 at Haileybury College (Hertfordshire, England), where her father taught mathematics.Living Stones ebook". worldmissionbooks.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21 . Retrieved 2016-12-09. Exhausted, Helen returned to England in 1958 for a furlough, during which time she received further medical training. There was now a growing hunger in my heart. During the Christmas holidays, the C.U. girls had arranged for me to go to a Christian house party, and suddenly, on the last night of the house party, I knew. I knew that I had been blind, but now I could see. And this complete certainty, the knowledge of what Jesus had done for me in the past, made me utterly sure that I was saved. She was encouraged to return to Congo in 1960, the year of the country’s independence. The new nation soon descended into a period of unrest and instability, leading to what became known as ‘the Congo crisis’, five years of brutality and destruction. Another passage where Jesus said that what was done was a beautiful thing was in Simon’s house, at the meal table, when the woman came and broke the alabaster jar of precious ointment, anointing him, as he said, in preparation for his burial. The other disciples were grumbling: “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” Jesus said, “Why do you trouble her? . . . She has done a beautiful thing to me” (Mark 14:4–6).

Somebody recently asked me, “Who are your heroes?” I had to stop and think. I really don’t have any heroes except Jesus. But I realize that in one sense, Caleb is one of my heroes. He was still going strong at eighty-five years of age, still prepared to fight for a mountain that was inhabited by giants with fortified cities. He went for it. He did not give up. Polycarp One thing I . . . know” comes from John 9:25. There was a man who was born blind, and Jesus healed him. The Pharisees were saying, “Who did it?” They were arguing with the man that he wasn’t the man who’d been born blind, and if he was, then who had healed him? The man said, “Whether he [that is, Jesus] is a sinner or not, I do not know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!” And that was fact — actually, past fact! I pray that for every single one of us this is a past fact in our personal experience. There was a moment when, having been blind to the things of God, suddenly I could see! To love the Lord my God with all my soul will involve a volitional and emotional cost. I'll have to give Him my will, my rights to decide and choose, and all my relationships, for Him to guide and control, even when I cannot understand His reasoning.

This time, she established a medical facility in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, which included a 250-bed hospital, maternity ward, leprosy centre and training college for doctors.

Tonight you’ve entered into the first part of the verse, “That I may know Him.” This is only the beginning, and there’s a long journey ahead. My prayer for you is that you will go on through the verse to know “the power of His resurrection” and also, God willing, one day perhaps, “the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” I was most pleased to read from the book Psalm 46:10 to my children: Be still, and know that I am God. The book says that our children can trust God when we are worried or scared, and this is something that I often tell my children as well.

Serving the Congo

On the night Helen became a Christian, a Bible teacher named Graham Scroggie wrote in her Bible, Philippians 3:10: 'I want to know Christ - yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.' (22) This became an immense desire for Helen - to know Jesus more deeply, even in the depths of suffering, and therefore grow to be more like him. Her wholehearted and earnest longing to please God, compelled by his love, shone through her life. We know we are his ambassadors. We’ve been entrusted with the word of reconciliation and are called to tell others that Jesus died for their sins. And that is the certainty of what should be our present-tense activity. That’s what we’ve been sent to do. God has sent us out to tell others about Jesus. There should be an earnestness in our spirits. Taylor J. A woman of whom the world was not worthy: Helen Roseveare (1925-2016). The Gospel Coalition 7 December 2016. bit.ly/2G9wUJw