Read this in one day. Gave it away the next day. This is a wake-up call to sleepy Christianity. I want to read about a big God, it increases my faith. This is the best book I have read this year.

A haunting reminder that life was never meant to be about ourselves and that God's sovereignty will always prevail.

Inspirational story about how Heidi and Rolland Baker got started in ministry, and their miraculous, selfless work in Mozambique.

The poor of Mozambique have seen the richness of Jesus. Heidi and Rolland Baker are an amazing missionary couple that believe with all their hearts that Jesus is always enough. They live out the sufficiency of Christ in a radical faith and away from the physical bounty of the first world. I have a deep respect that they are not victims of impoverished spirits. They are abundantly joyful where they are stripped of everything to rely on, except Christ.

Inspiring and challenging.

Only believe and see what God can & does do today

I (Colin) thought I was trusting the Lord for needs, but this book has shown me just what trusting the Lord in EVERY situation really means. We can look back and see the Lord's leading in our lives over several years, but we have only scratched the surface of what the Lord really wants!

Wow! Rolland and Heidi’s full surrender to the Lord is remarkable and their endless amount of stories that they share and continually to share for the outpour of the Holy Spirit in Mozambique is powerful. This is what the world needs, a defining moment. To fully die to ourselves and resurrect daily. To give Him our full yes! Remarkable stories!

Love Everything I have read by Heidi & Rolland Baker

This is one of three books I purchased by these amazing people.  Saw them in person in Florida recently.  These people are the real deal: humble, and joy-filled servants of God.  This book is, as all of their first hand accounts, eye opening, heart breaking and challenging.  The pain and suffering of the children that they adopt is beyond what I can wrap my head around.  I cannot imagine the depths of the children's despair before Roland and Heidi find them.  Yet what God does after they are adopted is the most amazing part of the story. Even if you are not a believer, reading this book may open your imagination to what is possible when one person says, "Enough!" to childhood poverty and abominable abuse within their own sphere of influence.

Wow ... this books is so so good.

Rolland & Heidi Baker outline the early days of their relationship, their awakening to Christ's incredible love for them and the start of their ministry work in Mozambique. Heidi asked for a nation to minister to and the Lord gave them Mozambique. Their story demonstrates that old chestnut that the Lord simply desires those who are available. Those who make themselves available will be used and through daily surrender will be used extraordinarily.

We get to see the sparseness and poverty of the people they love amongst, how the Lord uses them to powerfully demonstrate His love for the brokenhearted, poor and needy. We experience miracle after miracle as people are raised from the dead, the blind given sight, the deaf the ability to hear ... God wants to do all this and more. But it's not just the Bakers who are the conduits of Christ's love; far from it, the many pastors of the thousands of churches that have been established are also the conduit for Christ's miracles.

It is a powerfully convicting life the Bakers are living. The power they experience but also the battles, the personal illnesses and devastation that the enemy throws at them like hundred-year old floods that set the country back decades. But through all of it we see an immense love, the Bakers for Jesus and Jesus for the Bakers. I want what they have.

Be warned. Reading this book will challenge you to a life of daily surrender to Jesus.

There are two main components to a book - the contents and the presentation. After hearing stories about Heidi and Rolland Baker's exploits in the financially challenged areas of the world, I expected to encounter some wonderful content in this book. I definitely was not disappointed. My expectations for the presentation of those inspiring stories was not high (I was unaware that Heidi and her husband both possess PhD's) and my tolerance level was set accordingly. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that their writing was invisible most of the time and became conspicuous only when the author decided to wax poetic. The prose in those situations usually provided a diversionary side trip which lasted for a moment and then gave way to the harsh and sometimes jubilant realities of their life of service to God and the human race. I strongly believe that in delivering a message via the printed word, invisible writing is the most efficient style. If no flaws in syntax or phraseology exist, and the author does not put on an extravagant display of multisyllabic vocabulary which causes even educated people to scramble for a dictionary, the reader can focus on the significance of the author's content. And when Christians encounter the full thrust of the message delivered by the Bakers, their life will be impacted to some degree. I know that mine was touched deeply.  I used to sing that song "Please, Don't Send Me to Africa", but after reading these books, I've been pondering a missionary trip to Mozambique.

Donald James Parker
Author of Reforming the Potter's Clay

日本語版を買って読み感動したので、英語版も挑戦する事にしました。