Vivienne: ‘On Special Assignment’
‘I developed a fairly strong conviction that I would never marry but I did not rule it out. I never renounced marriage but I never sought it. Now I very…
read more‘I developed a fairly strong conviction that I would never marry but I did not rule it out. I never renounced marriage but I never sought it. Now I very…
read more‘One mission interviewer in the UK had grave doubts about my suitability for work where learning a language was essential. She had taken me to church and realized how unmusical…
read more‘The Community Development Team at WCH referred to Vivienne as “teacher” – we were her students - she gave us “homework”. But despite the rather stilted terminology, I believe that…
read more, ‘more than learning about being strategic, I am encouraged to seek to be true to Christ's call, intentional in investing the gifts and abilities that I have, and patient…
read more‘Marmalade or Bible Study, there has always been a certain precision in Vivienne's approach to what is served up. Though, in saying that, one has to remark that appearance and…
read more‘To this day I can remember things Vivienne said during the course [Women in Islam} and through her writings. For example, she said that only Christian women could win Muslim…
read more‘Once Vivienne was traveling as a single foreign woman on a rural bus. She heard the passengers around her discussing who she was and what she was carrying in her…
read more‘In compiling this book, in fact in all of my writings, I like to think of my friends of other faiths and of no faith, looking over my shoulder. I…
read more‘I left the meeting knowing that God had called me to work abroad...‘From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded...’ (Luke 12:48). I knew God had given…
read more‘The next question was what career I should follow. I wanted to be a writer. I was to write articles and booklets but not to try to earn my living…
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