I’ve received a mobi.file copy of this book from the author through a giveaway she recently had on LibraryThing.com, and the following is my honest opinion.

What does a British police officer/detective do when her rekindled Christian beliefs start to interfere with her desire to perform the responsibilities associated with her job? If you’ve read this author’s [Natalie Vellacort] memoir “Planet Police”, you’d have learned about this conflict in her life, a conflict which ultimate caused her to retire from police work and to perform tasks associated with her now renewed passion of her Christian beliefs.

In this memoir, Ms. Vellacort, takes her readers to the work she did in Manila, in the Philippines, as an independent missionary. Her time there can best be described as being like a roller coaster.
A ride where the author gets instantaneously entrenched in the country’s culture, which lasts for a few years.

During this time, Ms. Vellacort, constantly faces a myriad of issues: homeless pregnant women who are about to give birth, young children whose parents have tossed them out on the streets to fend for themselves, young teenage drunks who should be in school, just to name a few. The author faces all of this and more, while at the same time she’s attempting to bring salvation through the Lord’s messages to the massive number of urban poor living in the slums of Manila, in order for them to be uplifted from the depths of sin and darkness they’re living in.

For wanting to share her own religious experiences of doing missionary, in the hope that others might want to do something on their own, albeit on a much smaller and more local scale; I’ve given this book 5 STARS. ( )

Excellent! It's an interesting and eye opening read bringing the reader face to face with the realities of life for too many people on this earth and the missionaries who try to help on a physical as well as a spiritual level. There are street urchins who have little sense of right and wrong, well meaning but clueless parishioners, both caring and self aggrandizing church leaders, and the faces of crushing poverty. Read this one to learn how one person learned a lot and did make a difference.
I entered a LibraryThing Giveaway because I had enjoyed an earlier book by this author and was fortunate to have won it. ( )