240 pages, 6 x 9 paperback format
Documents the missionary letters of Florence C. Stacy in her own words, written variably from Brazil or while waiting to re-enter her mission field there. The reader will gain insight into the struggles she faced as well as the many love-filled encounters of mercy in which she was able to minister, both as a believer and as a nurse, often in the favillas, the desolate, uncivilized areas where 30 percent of Brazil's population subsists without basic services. She also details her volunteer survice at hospitals open to the poorest of the poor. Since Florence's days in this large, beautiful, flourishing country, Bible-based faith has tripled in a country that has been hampered by a form of Catholic expression tacitly tied to demon worship and failed liberation theologies. Florence Stacy was genuine, compassionate, perceptive, and effectiveness in helping connect the poor in spirit to the God of the universe, although in her own estimation, she failed in her attempts to do what she saw needed to be done and could be done, with sufficient support.
