In Strength Not Our Own
A Maasai Medical Miracle
by Georgie Orme & Irene Howat
Paperback
Price: £7.99
Publisher:Christian Focus Publications
Published:March 2010
ISBN:978-1-845-50334-5
GoodBookStall Review:
This is the story of Georgie Orme’s life and work in East Africa. From an inauspicious start to her missionary life she found her calling among the disabled children of Kenya. The story she tells with the help of Irene Howat is inspirational from beginning to end. Sent to east Africa by the Africa Inland Mission her first posting does not work out and she is sent from Uganda to missionaries in Kenya. This wise couple eventually send her to help at Kajiado in Kenya and this is where she finds herself caught up in the mission’s work for seventeen years.
There are heart rending descriptions of the disabilities the children face - many from birth, many from polio and other diseases – but throughout there are miracles of giving, healing and endurance and the sense that the children are enabled to be children, to move freely, to have fun, to squeal with excitement, be normal or as normal as could possibly be managed.
As local Maasai people became able to run things for themselves, Georgie moved on to Kiserian in the north of the country, there to help develop another centre and finally move across Lake Baringo to Kampi to start yet another centre helping disabled children.
There are so many stories contained in this narrative that I found I read on and on, sometimes praying in thankfulness, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping; well worth while reading.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (31/07/10)
This is the story of Georgie Orme’s life and work in East Africa. From an inauspicious start to her missionary life she found her calling among the disabled children of Kenya. The story she tells with the help of Irene Howat is inspirational from beginning to end. Sent to east Africa by the Africa Inland Mission her first posting does not work out and she is sent from Uganda to missionaries in Kenya. This wise couple eventually send her to help at Kajiado in Kenya and this is where she finds herself caught up in the mission’s work for seventeen years.
There are heart rending descriptions of the disabilities the children face - many from birth, many from polio and other diseases – but throughout there are miracles of giving, healing and endurance and the sense that the children are enabled to be children, to move freely, to have fun, to squeal with excitement, be normal or as normal as could possibly be managed.
As local Maasai people became able to run things for themselves, Georgie moved on to Kiserian in the north of the country, there to help develop another centre and finally move across Lake Baringo to Kampi to start yet another centre helping disabled children.
There are so many stories contained in this narrative that I found I read on and on, sometimes praying in thankfulness, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping; well worth while reading.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (31/07/10)
