In Rebel Hands
by Trish Perkins
Paperback
Price: £12.99
Publisher:Sovereign World from Joining the Dots Distribution
Published:2009
ISBN:978-1-852-40504-5
GoodBookStall Review:
‘During a moonlit night in Mozambique, six missionaries and an eighteen-month-old girl were abducted at gun-point from their mission base and medical clinic, near Gondola, by heavily armed guerrilla soldiers of the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (MNR). Together their captives marched them for three months relentlessly over five hundred kilometres’
The description on the back of the book sets out what happened in 1987, but that is not by any means the whole story.
Trish Perkins tells in sometimes harrowing detail exactly what that abduction and the following forced march meant to the individuals concerned and to the group as a whole. Trish and her husband Roy had an abiding love for Mozambique and its people and were absolutely certain that the Lord meant them to be there, and that He was using this harsh experience to hone them into the people He wanted them to be.
At times you wonder how they could have kept going. They had injuries and illnesses that in normal circumstances would have laid them low and needing nursing care, but miraculously they all endured the hardships and survived the many ordeals.
I read the whole book with a sense of awe and wonder. At times a dificult read, but inspiring and well worth while reading.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (08/10/09)
‘During a moonlit night in Mozambique, six missionaries and an eighteen-month-old girl were abducted at gun-point from their mission base and medical clinic, near Gondola, by heavily armed guerrilla soldiers of the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (MNR). Together their captives marched them for three months relentlessly over five hundred kilometres’
The description on the back of the book sets out what happened in 1987, but that is not by any means the whole story.
Trish Perkins tells in sometimes harrowing detail exactly what that abduction and the following forced march meant to the individuals concerned and to the group as a whole. Trish and her husband Roy had an abiding love for Mozambique and its people and were absolutely certain that the Lord meant them to be there, and that He was using this harsh experience to hone them into the people He wanted them to be.
At times you wonder how they could have kept going. They had injuries and illnesses that in normal circumstances would have laid them low and needing nursing care, but miraculously they all endured the hardships and survived the many ordeals.
I read the whole book with a sense of awe and wonder. At times a dificult read, but inspiring and well worth while reading.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (08/10/09)
| Reader review: - Guy Marshall, TGBS reviewer This remarkable book reflects the ongoing suffering of people on the African continent; war, drought, famine, rebel armies, insurgents, conspiracies, racism, anger, hatred, intolerance, all are rife. Yet there is much good news as well which comes across in Trish Perkin's grafic re-telling of her captivity in the hands of the rebels in Mozambique. The experience of the terrible conditions the captives, including children, had to endure for 3 months as they tramped from camp to camp through the jungle, swamps and dangerous hippo infested river crossings. Yet their dependency on the love of God to see them through taught them many spiritual lessons. When they were at last released they might easily have gone to safety, but instead chose to return to Maforga and continue their calling to work with the poor and needy people of Mozambique. A gripping adventure. |
