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Give me this mountain: an autobiography
'Give Me This Mountain' is the British title of the autobiography of Dr. Helen Roseveare, graduate in medicine from University of Cambridge, in the late 1940's. A wellknown missionary doctor and author, with several of her works still in print, she worked in the northeastern province of the Belgian Congo with the Heart of Africa Mission in the 1950's & 60's. She establ
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Wonderfully honest story of a missionary doctor. Her honesty and raw faith is inspiring. I will go back and reread my highlights again. You can google her on YouTube. She is still alive as of 4/1/2013
This testimony of a medical missionary to Congo in the 40s-60s is very inspiring. The author is brutally honest about her failings and spiritual lack. So much so, it makes one feel much comforted, that others go through such battles. Modern testimonies don't seem to have this level of baring of the soul.
The paths she's walked down are interesting and her insights useful. She's clearly very intelligent and a driven woman, in the days when things weren't so fashionable, or at least, that's what we ...more
I give this one star for the book/writing, not for the story of Dr. Roseveare's life. I was very excited to read this, because I think her story and life are powerful. However, the book is poorly written and edited, and it is difficult to follow. The duration of time is completely unclear for different events and across events. Seemingly important people and situations come up once and then never again. I was also frustrated that it was merely a retelling of events, with very little of her heart
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Good missionary bio. She was a workaholic who then took long furloughs to rest up. As a missionary it is hard to find balance and continue in the work.
Okay, so I have to be totally honest - this is not a riveting read. I'd even go so far to say it started rather slowly, but knowing the basic story and having a high regard for Dr. Roseveare, I hung in there and was very glad I did. The last half of the book more than made up for it for me. Helen's transparency and humble account of her challenges in what-was-the-Congo was very inspiring and rather convicting. I recommend this autobiography to anyone who is in missions or ministry...or maybe sim
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Give Me This Mountain is the first half of Helen Roseveare's missionary autobiography. (It is followed up by He Gave Us a Valley.) She tells of her first years in Congo as a medical doctor. The best thing about her books is her complete transparency about her failures. Over and over again, the reader is shown how God's strength was made perfect in her weakness. Really wonderful stories that will inspire you to follow God wholeheartedly.
Dr. Roseveare is a fascinating woman; a woman ahead of her time, but I found the book to be a little dry. I wanted more feeling. It felt more like listing facts on a timeline than a memoir; therefore, I got a little bogged down in the details.
Helen is one of my 'heroes.' I heard her at Urbana '83 and have appreciated her passion for God's Word and world since.
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Dr. Helen Roseveare was born in Hailebury, Herts, England in 1925. She became a Christian as a medical student in Cambridge University in 1945. She continued to have strong links with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and was designated as the "CICCU missionary" during the 1950s and 1960s. She built a combination hospital/ training center in Ibambi in the early 1950s, then relocated t
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“If you think you have come to the mission field because you are a little better than others, or as the cream of your church, or because of your medical degree, or for the service you can render the African church, or even for the souls you may see saved, you will fail. Remember, the Lord has only one purpose ultimately for each one of us, to make us more like Jesus. He is interested in your relationship with Himself. Let Him take you and mould you as He will; all the rest will take its rightful place.”
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