Just last week I finished reading a book called Confessions of a Transformed Heart by Nancy Sheppard. She and her husband are missionaries to Liberia and have been for some thirty years. They left family and friends soon after graduating from college and raised a family of five children there and in Ivory Coast, its neighbor country to which thousands of Liberians fled during civil war.
Sheppard is an accomplished writer with a straight forward style. Her effort to be transparent makes her story all the more compelling. This is no "look how sainted we are" narrative of her life, but rather a telling of how sufficient God is in the midst of innumerable hardships, some of which she brings on herself.
For a very real look at life in West Africa for one woman with a teachable spirit, read this book.
I came to know about it from one of my friends at church who works with Nancy Sheppard's daughter-in-law. The eldest son of Mark and Nancy Sheppard, John-Mark, and his young wife are awaiting the birth of their first child and then off to Liberia they go to continue the work in Liberia's interior.
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