Miss Rush-Rush: Where Love Led Her by Ruth Stranex Deeth (English) Hardcover Boo

Description: Miss Rush-Rush by Ruth Stranex Deeth Ruth leaves her comfortable, settled home in Durban, to live among a tribe of nomads in Uganda. "I waved goodbye to my family at Durban airport, and flew to Nairobi. I half-hoped for a miracle mid-air to change me into the super-heroine missionaries are supposed to be. Nothing happened. I got off the plane, the same Ruth Stranex, who had been assessed by my Oxford college as "not outstanding". Yet I was facing an outstandingly tough job, only possible with Gods help." Ruth has to adapt to the culture of the Pokot people: to their diet of cows blood and milk; their cattle-raiding wars; their frenzied search for water-holes. She delivers their babies, treats their malaria and sews up their spear wounds. She cleans up the infected sores left by witchdoctors trying to let out evil spirits. She challenges their goat sacrifices intended to appease an angry god. She tells them about the one sacrifice offered for them by the Lamb of God who is Love. Then, without any warning, she is arrested, driven for 2 days, between policewomen with kalashnikovs and locked in a foul cell ..... Youll love her frankness and her humour. Youll wish you had friends like her African Christian friends. You may wish you had a faith like hers. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Excerpt from Book Idi Amin - that name once struck terror into the heart of every Ugandan. In 1975 people were disappearing every day and bodies found floating n Lake Victoria. Early that May, armed guards arrested a small white woman from a remote Mission Hospital in Karamoja and drove her 350 miles to Kampalas Central Police Station. They took her down two flights of stairs, the air thickening at every step. A shouting warder rearranged the cells; ten men were herded out of one cell into another and she was locked in the empty one. The air was stale with the sweat of ten unwashed bodies. The walls were black, scratched with African names. The floor was littered with bottles, dirty dishes and old food. Shoes, newspapers and plastic bags poked out from under a board - for sleeping on, I guessed. In the corner was a grimy sink and a toilet sunk in the floor to add to the stench. The cell door clanked shut; a bolt dragged across.. A Ugandan policeman peered through the bars at this little woman standing under the bare electric bulb. I could hardly believe that this woman was me, Ruth Stranex. I sank down on my case shaking, too stunned even to pray. All I could manage was to repeat in a desperate whisper, Jesus, Jesus. I remembered the story in my Bible of Paul and Silas singing Psalms in prison. Ill try that, I thought. I took a shaky breath and opened my mouth to sing Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd. No tune came out, just a croak:The Lords... and I burst into tears. Through my tears, I dimly saw graffiti on the walls.. Who scratched this? I wondered. I thought about South Africa, the land of my childhood, where som many black people were imprisoned unjustly. The thought trickled through my brain:Perhaps someone who is white has has to be treated unjustly to balance things out. Wryly, I could hear my mothers voice joking:Ruth will never die a natural death! If she trips, shes sure to be at the top of the stairs; if stands on a chair and it wobbles over, trust her to grab a shelf packed with jam jars, and pull down the lot! If she slips off a river bank, shell time it just as hippos are bobbing by. Ruth will never die a natural death! I could hear the faint echo of laughter. I hoped her words were not prophetic. Details ISBN1512767875 Author Ruth Stranex Deeth Pages 174 Publisher Westbow Press Language English ISBN-10 1512767875 ISBN-13 9781512767872 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-01-17 Subtitle Where Love Led Her Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Short Title Miss Rush-Rush UK Release Date 2017-01-17 Imprint Westbow Press Place of Publication Nashville, TN AU Release Date 2017-01-17 NZ Release Date 2017-01-17 US Release Date 2017-01-17 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159560458;

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