Darlene Deibler Rose (–2004)

Somehow, I stumbled on this book over Christmas holiday 2021, while visiting my family back home.

Very inspiring, and strengthening for one's own walk with the Lord.

I thought of one of the missionaries from my church much of the time that I was reading this, since they were missionaries to the same area. I wonder if they knew each other.

I was sad when I found out that Mrs. Rose lived out her sunset years in the same state as I'm living in, but passed away more than a decade before I read her autobiography.

I highly recommend this for anyone going through struggles, and wondering: "Where is God in all of this?"… (plus d'informations)

Autobiographical story of a young missionary woman just before and during World War 2. The book begins with her arriving in the Dutch East Idies (Indonesia) with her husband on their first anniversary. We follow her for the next 8 years: learning the language, first white woman meeting tribes in New Guinea, hearing the news of war over the radio, evacuation, arrival of Japanese troops, intermittent camps, brutal interrogations, survival, and her return to the United States.
In the final chapter sums up the remains 60+ years of her life: remarried and returning the the islands as a missionary.… (plus d'informations)

Darlene Deibler Rose writes of her years as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II in what is now the jungles of New Guinea. She tells of her Lord's faithfulness in the crucible of cruelty, suffering, and sorrow experienced as a young bride separated from her beloved husband. Told in the self-effacing manner common among the heroes of "The Greatest Generation", we are privileged to encounter this personal journey of a woman who began committing her story to paper ten years before publication for the sake of her sons because "I wished them to know, if ever difficult circumstances came into their lives, that their mother's God is still alive and very well, and His arm has never lost its ancient power!"… (plus d'informations)