Everyone needs an older sister or brother. Maybe I’m a little biased, as the eldest of eight, but I certainly did miss having someone a little ahead of me, especially in my early twenties. But over and over again, I benefited from the wise counsel of a woman who was passionate, smart, outspoken – and unusually dedicated to the idea of obeying Jesus, in a life-course that took her into rainforests and behind the book table at churches, to cottages on the coasts of Massachusetts and Norway, and out on the radio waves.
Elisabeth Elliot: have you heard of her? Whether your answer is yes or no, I imagine there’s more of her work to explore. You can learn a bit more at Club 31 Women: Utterly Devoted, or at Kindred Grace: The Human Side of My Hero.
Elisabeth Adams 