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Aunt Tena, Called to Serve

When Tena Huizenga felt the call to serve as a missionary nurse to Africa, she followed that call and served seventeen years at Lupwe, Nigeria, during a pivotal era in world missions. As she ministered to the natives, she recorded her thoughts and feelings in a diary and in countless letters to family and friends 鈥� over 350 in her first year alone.

Through her eyes, we see the Lupwe mission, Tena's colleagues, and the many native helpers. Aunt Tena (Nigerians called all female missionaries 鈥淎unt鈥�) tells this profoundly human story. Interesting in its own right, the book will also prove invaluable to historians, sociologists and genealogists as they mine this rich resource.

鈥淭his intensely human volume guides us through 17 memorable years of Nigerian mission history,鈥� said Eugene Rubingh, former executive secretary of Christian Reformed World Missions. 鈥淒rawn from Tena Huizenga鈥檚 own letters, the events are sketched through the lens of joy and tears, of small victories and unimaginable obstacles. Both candor and love transform mundane facts into a warm and lively account of a life poured out for God.鈥�