Helen Roseveare Explained

Helen Roseveare (21 September 1925  - 7 December 2016) was an English Christian missionary, doctor and author. She worked with Worldwide Evangelization Crusade in the Congo from 1953 to 1973, including part of the period of political instability in the early 1960s. She practised medicine and also trained others in medical work.[1]

Biography

Helen Roseveare was born in Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, England in 1925.[2] Her father was Martin Roseveare, the designer of ration books for the United Kingdom used during the Second World War. Her brother, Bob Roseveare, was a wartime codebreaker. She became a Christian as a medical student at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1945. She was involved with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, attending prayer meetings, Bible study classes and evangelical events.[3]

After completing her studies, Roseveare applied to WEC to be a medical missionary. In 1953, she went to the Congo, where she was assigned to the north-east provinces. She built a combination hospital/ training center in Ibambi in the early 1950s, then relocated to Nebobongo, living in an old leprosy camp, where she built another hospital. After conflict with other staff at the hospital, she returned to England in 1958.[4]

She returned to the Congo in 1960. In 1964 she was taken prisoner by rebel forces and she remained a prisoner for five months, enduring beatings and rapes. She left the Congo and headed back to England after her release but returned to the Congo in 1966 to assist in the rebuilding of the nation.[5] She helped establish a new medical school and hospital, as the other hospitals that she built had been destroyed, and served there until she left in 1973. After her return from Africa, she had a worldwide ministry speaking and writing. She was a plenary speaker at the Urbana Missions Convention three times. Her life of service was portrayed in the 1989 film Mama Luka Comes Home.Her touching story about the prayer of Ruth, 10-year-old African girl, for a hot water bottle to save a premature newborn baby after its mother had died has been widely forwarded by email.[6] She survived rape and trial during the Congolese civil war in 1964 because of the intervention of the villagers she had helped previously.[7]

Roseveare died on 7 December 2016 aged 91 in Northern Ireland.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: CFP Give me this Mountain Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  2. http://www.urbana.org/great-cloud-of-witnesses/helen-roseveare-courageous-woman-doctor-in-the-congo Helen Roseveare: Courageous Woman Doctor in the Congo
  3. News: Helen Roseveare. Urbana. 2016-12-09.
  4. Web site: Helen Roseveare . Rebecca Hickman . Travelling Team . 2011-10-25.
  5. Web site: CFP He gave us a Valley Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  6. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hotwaterbottle.htm Truth or Fiction, The Hot Water Bottle: The Story of the Dying Baby, a Hot Water Bottle, A Child's Prayer, and A Children's Doll-Truth!
  7. http://www.suffering.net/thank.htm Can you Thank Me? An interview with Helen Roseveare
  8. https://www.downanddromore.org/news/2016/12/Bishop-Harold-Millers-Tribute-to-Helen-Roseveare#.WEmTwDKcaRs Bishop Harold Miller’s Tribute to Dr Helen Roseveare
  9. Web site: Give Me This Mountain. worldmissionbooks.com. 2016-12-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221041259/https://worldmissionbooks.com/index.php/hikashop-categories/helen-roseveare/product/25-give-me-this-mountain. 2016-12-21.
  10. Web site: CFP Enough Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  11. Web site: He Gave Us A Valley. worldmissionbooks.com. 2016-12-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221041142/https://worldmissionbooks.com/index.php/authors/helen-roseveare/product/26-he-gave-us-a-valley. 2016-12-21.
  12. Web site: CFP Living Sacrifice: Willing to be Whittled as an Arrow Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  13. Web site: CFP Living Faith: Willing to be Stirred as a Pot of Paint Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  14. Web site: CFP Living Holiness: Willing to be the Legs of a Galloping Horse Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  15. Web site: CFP Digging Ditches: The Latest Chapter of an Inspirational Life Helen Roseveare. www.christianfocus.com. 2016-12-09.
  16. Web site: Living Stones ebook. worldmissionbooks.com. 2016-12-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221041254/https://worldmissionbooks.com/index.php/component/hikashop/product/101-living-stones. 2016-12-21.
  17. Web site: Living Fellowship. worldmissionbooks.com. 2016-12-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221041011/https://worldmissionbooks.com/hikashop-categories/product/34-living-fellowship. 2016-12-21.
  18. Web site: Count it All Joy by Helen Roseveare. www.thoughtcollective.com. Thought Collective. 10ofthose.com. 2018-02-26.

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