So Send I You

About the Book

What do you do when: One of your school boys comes to you early in the morning with his jaws swollen so badly that he seems to have no neck at all—and the nurse is off helping people in the bush fifty miles away? Or when a mother brings her crying baby on a Sunday afternoon with a very serious deformity—and the nurse is still away? Or when the Education Officer is scheduled to come and the school needs a serious renovation and there is no money? Or when the miners have brought in a man with a compound fractured leg, and you have no car to take him 25 miles to the nearest hospital? Or when you see the clouds are darkening, and a storm is threatening, then opens up with tornado-force winds and rain, blowing down your newest school building? Or when the elderly man, who buys food for the school, leaves to go seventy-five miles into the nearest city to get sacks of food that you are needing for the school children, and he has not returned in a week’s time? Is he still in the city searching for the food, or has an accident befallen him, and where do you begin to look for him? Or when one of your school girls is desperately ill, and it’s five o’clock in the morning and too early to rouse the African nurse? Or when the little water engine just won’t go and you have no way to pump water up the hill and a crowd of people are coming the next day for a Board Meeting? How God solved our problems time after time, in instances like these, is the essence of this book.

About the Author

Her childhood was spent on a farm in Wisconsin. At age fourteen, she moved with her family to Wheaton, near Chicago, Illinois, so her sisters could attend the College and she could start high school. Further schooling followed as she took business training in Chicago and then Bible training at the Moody Bible Institute. She earned her degree at Wheaton College. Interspersed with her schooling were two years of office work near the “loop” in Chicago and later Bible Teaching in about twenty rural schools around Port Huron, Michigan. She then sailed for Africa and spent almost thirty years in Nigeria teaching in various Christian schools where secular subjects were accompanied with Bible Training. She was married in Nigeria, and upon retiring, she and her husband continued on in Christian work until their final retirement at “Go Ye” Village in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.