
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 & raped & 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 & hospital (for the other hospitals that she built were destroyed) & served there until 1973 In the eight years following the war despite endless frustrations again & again God showed his unfailing guidance & unstinted provision for her needs This book is the story of the joys & adventures of re-establishing the medical work the church building programme & the work of forgiveness necessary after the destruction of the civil war