Mary Slessor: Forward Into Calabar

by Geoff Benge and Janet Benge

Book Overview

God would indeed answer the prayer of the fiery, red-haired woman from Scotland. For thirty-nine years, Mary Slessor would labor in love among the unreached, often treacherous, tribes of Africa's Calabar region. Braving sickness, danger, and death on all sides, Mary became the cherished "White Ma" to entire tribes. Her faith, steadfastness, and pioneering spirit brought her beloved adopted people their first brilliant, contrasting example of the life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576581489
• ISBN13: 9781576581483
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: YWAM Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Praise be to the Lord !!!

This book is a wonderful testimony of what God does when we trust in Him. God used Mary to bring peace and civility to a dangerous region in Africa, during a time when men would not dare to enter the interior of the continent. This story should be in every history book.

riveting

My 10-year-old and I read this as part of a home school unit on Africa. Mary Slessor is a wonderful role model for kids: scrappy, stubborn in the face of great resistance, and deeply compassionate. She helped West Africans tremendously by opening up inter-tribal trade and, perhaps most importantly, implementing peaceful alternatives to the more devastating and cruel tribal practices. The amazing thing is that she did this through a deep understanding and appreciation of native culture, as opposed to the more typical whites-are-superior-and-Africans-are-savages model of the time. The writing is not perfect by any stretch, but it's a truly great story.