Called and FaithfulThis is the story of Elva B. Landis, her call and faithful service as a nurse midwife to Africa, beginning in 1949. She spent 27 years at a clinic in the bush in Tanzania with no other white person in the area. How did Elva do it? What was her greatest strength? Her story will inspire us all to greater love and faithfulness. (207pp. color illus. Author, 2011.)

Published in two parts

Brethren (River)

The journey will inspire you

Tauferversteck

Frequent surnames: Johns

Shirk in 1966

who was born and raised in an Amish community

Authentic answers to questions about the Amish are categorized by the alphabet

particularly history from Switzerland that was unknown when the first edition was printed in 1998

The Shenk and Stoner families are central with other surnames: Brenneman

The book begins with the plight of the persecuted Oberholtzers of the Anabaptist faith in Switzerland and follows their eventual immigration to Pennsylvania

He married Lucinda B