"In everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. We have been beaten, been put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food. We have proved ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, our sincere love, and the power of the Holy Spirit."
2 Corinthians 6:4-6

Helen Roseveare is a short, no-nonsense Irish doctor with steely blue eyes and a wry wit. When I met her in 1994, she was a spry seventy and reminded me of a favorite elderly aunt or grandmother. Just looking at her, one would not guess that she had spent the better part of her life serving Christ as a medical missionary in Zaire (now the Congo)—or that she had been beaten and raped repeatedly by rebels during the Simba Rebellion in the early 1960s. Despite her incredible suffering and subsequent emotional breakdown, she managed to come back to work and accomplish ...