Wow … ‘a can’t put it down’ missionary biography and truly a must read. Underlying their zeal was the conviction that time is short, and that the test of such a work is not in buildings and institutions but in the vitality of the church ten years after all missionaries have departed. Dick and his devoted wife Joan were driven by a passion for the conversion of Africans to Christ and the founding of churches. Esteem for Africans and an understanding of their cultures were basic to the work attempted among them and will be instructive to anyone called to cross-cultural communication. It is a thrill and gripping account of risks undertaken and dangers faced for the sake of the Gospel. No one reading this biography will remain unchallenged. This is a ‘must read’ for those who feel called to take the gospel to unreached peoples. He hides nothing of the risks, the privations faced, the impact on his wife and family, and the deep personal struggles he went through. Dick Anderson tells how his passionate commitment to Christ drove him to be a missionary doctor among the nomadic Turkana in Kenya and in the end to lead the Africa Inland Mission into pioneering ventures over thirty years in taking the gospel to unreached peoples in Mozambique, Sudan, Chad, Madagascar, the Comoros, and Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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