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triciachen's review
5.0
This book features stories from 45 women who share about finding courage in the midst of the hard circumstances that come with living overseas. As someone who has spent almost half my life living overseas, I can relate to so many of the stories and I found such encouragement and strength from these honest portrayals of hope in both the ordinary and intense moments of cross-cultural life. I finished the book in two days and highly recommend it to those who have lived abroad or those who want to better understand what life is like for those who live outside of their passport country. Be forewarned that it covers topics like sexual harassment, mental health, team conflict, singleness, burnout, rape, miscarriage and illness, so it’s not for the faint of heart!
kentexmom's review
4.0
In reading biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, I have come to expect that biographers will often present missionaries as close to flawless while people writing about their own lives include their struggles and failures. Yet We Still Hope is a collection of 47 real life, personal narratives. These are not stories that put anyone on a pedestal. They are real.
I had a hard time at the beginning of the book. The first part has a lot of tragic stories that I needed to take in small doses. But the more I read, the more I loved it.
This book is for women on the field, preparing to go, or processing after returning home. It is also for those who will never go but instead send and support missionaries. In these pages you will find women who have had the same struggles in their lives that you have had - tragedies, abuse, sickness, betrayal, sin... Not only that, you will also see how they carried on, in hope.
I had a hard time at the beginning of the book. The first part has a lot of tragic stories that I needed to take in small doses. But the more I read, the more I loved it.
This book is for women on the field, preparing to go, or processing after returning home. It is also for those who will never go but instead send and support missionaries. In these pages you will find women who have had the same struggles in their lives that you have had - tragedies, abuse, sickness, betrayal, sin... Not only that, you will also see how they carried on, in hope.
megpsmit's review
4.0
This book is full of stories from women who live and do ministry in unfamiliar contexts. However these stories are not the typical stories you might think of when you think missions work. They are stories of broken people showing up to God in the middle of broken circumstances. These women are snapshots of the struggles and things that many of us in missions face in our work. I found myself relating to many of the stories as I have seen people go through similar things. It is powerful to see how God shows up, time after time. All this being said, it is a book full of hard, triggering stories so pick it up with that in mind. I am glad these ladies choose to share their stories and processing so that we could collectively worship the Lord with them.
turning_every_paige's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment
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