The Night the Angels Came: Miracles of protection and provision in Burundi

by Chrissie Chapman

Overview

Trained as a midwife, Chrissie Chapman went to Burundi in the nineties to open a maternity clinic and dispensary in a rural area of the country. She had been there just three years when a coup was declared, and the country descended into a state of civil war. It lasted for thirteen long years. During that time, God directed her to work with the orphans and widows. She started a centre for abandoned babies and traumatised children and saw the Lord performing remarkable miracles in the lives of people who had lost everything. Chrissie adopted three children herself, and has raised more than fifty others to young adulthood. Again and again she has witnessed miracles of protection and provision. When the war started, Chrissie, her adopted children, and the health staff were living in a rural location on top of a mountain, in a healing centre, with maternity clinic and dispensary. Every night there was gunfire, and every day people would come seeking refuge. One night, she and David Ndarahutse, the mission director, were sitting praying amid the fighting, when David said, 'Chrissie, look up.' There were dozens of angels standing on top of the walls of the healing centre. That was the night the angels came. 'From that moment on,' Chrissie records, 'I have never experienced or felt fear for my life.' Today Chrissie divides her time between Burundi, where she continues to care for the teenagers in her charge, and England, Canada and America, where she speaks widely about the faithfulness and power of God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857217226
Publisher:	Lion Hudson
Publication date:	02/19/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Chrissie Chapman is from Stockport, England. She was led to faith by a doctor while in the hospital recovering from a severe accident. For years Chrissie has faced the challenges of life in Burundi in order to rescue and foster orphans from the long civil war and the AIDS epidemic.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Acknowledgments 11

Why I Wrote this Book 13

Burundi 15

Chapter 1 The Sound of Silence 18

Chapter 2 The Night the Angels Came 36

Chapter 3 The First War Baby Arrives 42

Chapter 4 How I Found God in the Middle of This Mess 59

Chapter 5 CRIB (Children Rescued in Burundi) 77

Chapter 6 Miracle After Miracle 98

Chapter 7 A Bad Week 107

Chapter 8 Empty the Storehouse 121

Chapter 9 The King's School 139

Chapter 10 The Next Generation 156

Epilogue 181

About the Author 185

Editorial Reviews

04/18/2016
Chapman, an English nurse and midwife, has been working since 1990 in Burundi, a tiny, desperately poor African country bordering Rwanda and Tanzania. With breathless enthusiasm and simple faith, she tells of her nonstop efforts to care for the sick during a 2014 flare-up of civil unrest after nearly a decade of calm. She delivered babies in the middle of the night by the light of paraffin lamps, was held at gunpoint numerous times, stoically observed horrific acts of violence, struggled to feed and nourish endless streams of refugees, and eventually nurtured and educated more than 50 children orphaned and traumatized by AIDS and war. With prayer, persistence, and tremendous trust in miracles and the protection of angels, Chapman works tirelessly through unimaginably difficult circumstances. Though her citation of Bible verses and insistence that strong faith will spur change occasionally sound simplistic, Chapman's plain words reveal an unshakable commitment to her faith and her work that will show those in similarly dire situations a path through dark times. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Chrissie Chapman went to Burundi as a midwife, but stayed to rescue and foster orphans.

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