April Holden is from St Helens, Merseyside. As a child she suffered from persistent ill health, and was both physically and emotionally fragile. Coming to faith in her teens, she became convinced that God was calling her to work with street children in Africa. While at university she applied to Africa Inland Mission, but they rejected her because of her chronic health problems. She then trained as a teacher, and during this period became filled with the Holy Spirit. In due course she was accepted by Operation Mobilization, who sent her initially to Egypt for training. While there she had an opportunity to move to Sudan, where the needs of the street boys were most acute: many had been traumatized by war, or were the offspring of sex workers, or had fled abuse. She opened a series of centers, despite ongoing infirmity caused by arthritis in her spine and frequent, severe muscle spasms. When the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003 the Sudanese reacted angrily, attacking anyone who looked American. One day, faced with an angry mob, April was protected in her car by four large men who held the crowd at bay while she escaped to a nearby compound. The following day she looked for them to thank them, but the manager of the compound assured her he had been alone. After harrowing experiences during the separation of North and South Sudan in 2011 she returned to Britain, emotionally and physically exhausted, and OM insisted she took a sabbatical. Within months however she was back in action, this time from a base in Zambia, where she continues to train workers from surrounding countries. Her team has also begun to train professionals like police officers who are already working with vulnerable children. Her passion is to prepare missionaries to serve as facilitators alongside African churches and communities, mobilizing and equipping them to work with homeless children and youth in a godly, professional, and sustainable manner. She continues to work tirelessly to this end.

They Called Us Love: The Story of April Holden and Africa's Street Children

Meroff, Deborah

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

Telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious adventures of a journalist with Operation Mobilization, this book gives an insider's view of life aboard OM's three ships, and also the wider work of this international missionary organization. These stories are a testimony to God's protection and blessing for this evangelistic enterprise.

Footsteps in the Sea

Hodder&Stoughton

El Toque Del Maestro

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Editorial Unilit

Este libro es una guía sencilla, pero poderosa sobre las cuestiones de derechos humanos que afectan a más de la mitad de la población mundial. Va más allá de destacar los hechos desagradables sobre el infanticidio de niñas, novias niñas, las niñas soldados, la mutilación genital femenina, los asesinatos de «honor» y otros abusos. Su propósito es inspirar a las personas y a las iglesias a la oración y la acción que pueden ayudar a cambiar el rumbo. // This book is a simple but powerful guide about the human rights issues most affecting half our world s population. It goes beyond highlighting the ugly facts about female infanticide, child brides, girl soldiers, female genital mutilation, honor killings and other abuses. Its purpose is to inspire individuals and churches to prayer and action that can help turn the tide.

SOS: Slvalas, Oh, Seor // SOS: Save Our Sisters: An Action Guide (Spanish Edition)

DESAFIO

Tens of thousands of Bibles have been carried into the Arabian Peninsula, finding a clandestine network of believersFrom a brutal and impoverished background in Reading, England, Tom Hamblin became a believer as a teenager before serving as a missionary in the Far East. He and his wife, Edna, spent more than a decade leading expeditions into the heart of Borneo.
Gradually they became convinced that the Lord was calling them to minister in the Arabian Peninsula: in particular, to carry in thousands of Bibles in Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. They conveyed shipment after shipment into this region, never losing a copy and surmounting all restrictions. Customs guards turned a blind eye. Tom distributed Bibles very simply: walking around with a bag and waiting for people to ask him what he was doing.
The Islamic world is widely regarded as closed to the gospel, but this is simply untrue. Tom discovered an extensive network of believers—very few churches but many clandestine meetings for worship—and a huge hunger for the truth.
Under Their Very Eyes is the remarkable biography of a Bible courier to the Arab world that will stir the reader's spirit.

Under Their Very Eyes: The astonishing life of Tom Hamblin, Bible courier to Arab nations

Lion Hudson

Coronation of Glory: The Story of Lady Jane Grey

History

Europe

Inheritance Pubn

Review\n"Set in the time of clipper ships and the California Gold Rush, a young girl marries a handsome ship captain, and they sail around the world. Their adventures are chronicled by the young wife in first person, and the ending is such a surprise. For a fast and entertaining read, I recommend this book." Debbie Wisdom, GOOD READS

Captain, My Captain

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

This is a simple yet powerful guide to women's issues around the world. Meroff tells the inspiring true adventures of nine ordinary women, both married and single, who are making a difference in such places as Tajikistan, India, Egypt, and Lebanon. Brief fact files between stories highlight global abuses of girls and women, such as female infanticide, child brides, sex trafficking, girl soldiers, female circumcision, and honor killings. This book not only raises awareness of global issues but points out simple ways in which we can help turn the tide for women worldwide.

True Grit: Women Taking On the World, for God's Sake

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Authentic Media

Just how much does the Creator of the Universe concern Himself with the daily lives of the people He has created? Would He step in to rescue someone from unjust imprisonment? Deliver an innocent child from a life of prostitution? What about those times when He seems to allow bad things to happen to good people?..These are the real-life accounts of men and women who took the Good News of Christ to the ends of the earth with a mission called Operation Mobilization and how each of them experienced His unique touch in crisis situations. The stories will fill you with a sense of awe and delight but most of all with the assurance that God can be trusted-anywhere, anytime, with anything!

The Touch of the Master: Extraordinary Stories of How God Is Using Ordinary Men, Women, and Operation Mobilization

Authentic USA

Maine Has Moxie

North Country Press

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