It has been a joy and privilege to know Michele for all these years and watch what God has accomplished through her. How should I describe her to you? Extraordinary love, courage, commitment, obedience, sacrifice? Michele is a great example of how God can take an ordinary person to accomplish the extraordinary. Her life is an inspiration to all of us! She doesn?t allow circumstances to determine her destiny, but pursues God and embraces His love in such a way that it propels her to rise above the problems she faces. This in turn releases God?s love, presence, miracles, healing and blessing to the poorest and most destitute in her region of Africa. I trust that by reading Michele?s story, you will be challenged to embrace God and His love in such intimacy that you, too, will make a difference in the lives of those you encounter daily. Nothing is impossible for God to accomplish through anyone willing to love the way He loves and to obey Him in anything He calls you to do in life.

This book filled me with awe-struck envy at the intimacy of Michele’s relationship with Jesus, but I would not like to do what she does! The face of Love in war-torn southern Sudan, Michele provides a home for orphans and otherwise unwanted children in a climate of extreme poverty, violence and corruption, and in a place with no infrastructure where a trip to the nearest shop involves a three-day journey into Uganda. Disabled herself, she thrives and is used greatly to spread God’s kingdom despite appalling opposition and hardships. Time after time she has seen God triumph where human endeavour proves useless and powerless, and has developed the sort of glorious, humbling faith that expects miracles and is not disappointed – this faith she passes on to ‘her’ children. Love, she says, can look like clean water, food, sustainable income, healing or a home, but it starts with knowing first the love of Jesus: “I cannot give what I do not have... All living fruit in my life has come only from a living relationship with Him.” An inspiring and thought-provoking read.