They Called Us Love: The Story of April Holden and Africa's Street Children
Ebook
Overview
Going to Africa would cost April everything. She went anyway.
From a young age, April Holden was diagnosed with chronic health problems that restricted what she could and could not do. Growing up in St. Helens, Merseyside, April was a frail child who knew pain and resistance her whole life. But, at just seven years old, she came to faith and was convinced that God had called her to leave her home behind and move to Africa. When in university, she was finally old enough to apply to work with street children in Africa, but was turned down.
That didn’t stop her.
Nothing would.
After training to become a teacher, April applied again to leave the UK behind, and serve God in Africa. This time she got a step closer to her calling; she was sent to Egypt for training. Soon after, her chance came. She transferred to one of the most tumultuous, war-torn regions of North Africa. There she set up homes for boys scarred by war, fleeing violence, seeking safety. There she God do the impossible and offer a beacon of hope in an area of conflict and fear. She also saw her own life thrust into danger as political shifts had turned many of the population against anyone who looked like her, like the American forces that were now invading.
After escapes that were too close for comfort, April returned to the UK.
But her work wasn’t finished yet.
A remarkable story of one woman’s complete faith in God, They Called Us Love is a moving and powerful real-life story of mission and ministry.
Prologue
1 Painful beginnings
2 Egypt: brave new world
3 A cry in the night
4 Growing pains
5 Equipped for life
6 Lost and found
7 Spreading south
8 The quality of mercy
9 Green shoots in a dry land
10 A country divided
11 A future and a hope
12 The birth of a team
13 Compassion without borders
14 Invisible children
15 Back to the future
Postscript: partners are vital
Notes
References and resources
- Title: They Called Us Love: The Story of April Holden and Africa's Street Children
- Author: Deborah Meroff
- Publisher: SPCK Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780281079070, 9780281079063, 0281079064, 0281079072
- Resource ID: LLS:9780281079070
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T22:50:40Z