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Angola Beloved
Wilson, T. Ernest
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First published April 13, 2007
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March 16, 2020
*Note: I don't give out 5 stars except to my very favorite books. I consider 4 stars a high compliment.
I knew Mr. Wilson since I was a young child. He and his lovely wife visited our home on many occasions in the various states where we lived. My first memory of them is when I was 5 and I helped my mom ready my room for them to use. When we lived in NJ we were able to visit them in their home. Ten years later, married and heading to the mission field, my husband and I visited them in their home for tea. It was just like I remembered it! Mr. Wilson had a wonderful Irish brogue and was soft spoken with his "s's" coming out as a slight whistle. He was a godly man who loved the Lord and loved the people of Angola.
I first read this book in high school when we had to read a book about Africa for World History. My teacher approved it and since "missionary biography" is my absolute favorite genre, I devoured it.
A few years later I went to Bible school with two of his grandchildren and he and Elisabeth came to visit them and I was able to have dinner with them. Many years later, my second son started dating one of his great granddaughters and I read the book again. They have been married 7 years now, and I decided I wanted to read it again.
The book isn't great literature, but it is a record of the life of a man who, as I said, loved God and loved the people of Angola. The kind of life they lived in the early 20th century in Angola (walking 300 miles to propose and then going back home to wait for the wedding!) is a lesson to those of us who complain about not getting answers to our text messages within five minutes! The way God worked because of the Wilsons and the other missionaries, is amazing.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the lives of godly people, missionaries, or Africa. It will inspire your spiritual life and walk.
I knew Mr. Wilson since I was a young child. He and his lovely wife visited our home on many occasions in the various states where we lived. My first memory of them is when I was 5 and I helped my mom ready my room for them to use. When we lived in NJ we were able to visit them in their home. Ten years later, married and heading to the mission field, my husband and I visited them in their home for tea. It was just like I remembered it! Mr. Wilson had a wonderful Irish brogue and was soft spoken with his "s's" coming out as a slight whistle. He was a godly man who loved the Lord and loved the people of Angola.
I first read this book in high school when we had to read a book about Africa for World History. My teacher approved it and since "missionary biography" is my absolute favorite genre, I devoured it.
A few years later I went to Bible school with two of his grandchildren and he and Elisabeth came to visit them and I was able to have dinner with them. Many years later, my second son started dating one of his great granddaughters and I read the book again. They have been married 7 years now, and I decided I wanted to read it again.
The book isn't great literature, but it is a record of the life of a man who, as I said, loved God and loved the people of Angola. The kind of life they lived in the early 20th century in Angola (walking 300 miles to propose and then going back home to wait for the wedding!) is a lesson to those of us who complain about not getting answers to our text messages within five minutes! The way God worked because of the Wilsons and the other missionaries, is amazing.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the lives of godly people, missionaries, or Africa. It will inspire your spiritual life and walk.
July 11, 2018
This is one of the best missionary books I've ever read! I absolutely recommend it to anyone seeking to serve as a missionary, but particularly in Southern Africa.
January 19, 2011
Interesting read of missions work in Angola in the early 20th century.
The author was born in Belfast, and said he always had a desire to be involved in missions. In the early 1920's, after some time in Portugal learning Portuguese, he relocated to Angola and spent about the next 40 years in various parts of the country teaching the gospel, establishing a school and a medical center and seeing fruit from his labors.
He spends a fair amount of time in the book talking about the bureaucracy he encountered. I could have done with less of that, and more of the success stories. But all in all, I'm glad I read it.
The author was born in Belfast, and said he always had a desire to be involved in missions. In the early 1920's, after some time in Portugal learning Portuguese, he relocated to Angola and spent about the next 40 years in various parts of the country teaching the gospel, establishing a school and a medical center and seeing fruit from his labors.
He spends a fair amount of time in the book talking about the bureaucracy he encountered. I could have done with less of that, and more of the success stories. But all in all, I'm glad I read it.
March 24, 2010
ANGOLA. Missionary story! Me?
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