Was the cause really worth it all? Like many parents who are on mission with God in a foreign land, Mary Anne Phemister's father was resolute in his zeal to lead the lost people of China and later Vietnam, Cambodia, and Taiwan out of spiritual darkness. No one ever questioned his passion and dedication to missions. But the dark side of such unmovable faith, passion, and zeal was another matter. Was the cause really worth the emotional pain, suffering, and price that Mary Anne believes she and her siblings, as well as their submissive mother, paid for their father's intractable passion to witness for Christ overseas? With sensitivity, insight, forgiveness, and even humor Mary Anne weaves her recollection of her growing-up days as a child in a "Third-World Culture"-an experience shared by many who are reared in surroundings outside the land of their national origins. Like Pearl Buck's memorable "Fighting Angel" penned some 75 years ago Mary Anne thoughtfully yet incisively addresses issues and topics most missionary books would consider "too hot to handle."
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Memories of foreign places and trusted adults substituting for parents, reflections on a father whose call to preach the Gospel superceded all other priorities--this is a memoir from a missionary kid who recognizes the unique opportunities and disadvantages of that particular background and reflects on her journey to understanding with insight, humor, and, most of all, grace.
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I always thought we were supposed to revere the missionary kids they had a special life. The sacrifice they were forced to endure away from their family was a picture of their life I never understood before. Well written book.
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This insightful book describes the unusual life of a daughter born in the 1940's to American missionary parents in China. In addition to providing fascinating details of her highly unconventional childhood and young adulthood, the author courageously explores the motives of her demanding father and describes how she eventually learns forgiveness and finds peace, following years of neglect and abuse, meted out in the name of religion. In addition to its autobiographical elements and details of an exotic life, the book provides an honest assessment of the challenges and sacrifices required of missionaries and their families and how sometimes the best intentions are thwarted by uncompromising belief and misplaced ego. This book tells a story that needs telling, both for lay people and those in the missionary world. Reading it makes one eagerly await the author's next work.
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