Elsbeth

by Harold Myra

159 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

As a leader of Christianity Today International, Harold has been instrumental in creating an extremely successful nonprofit organization. Behind his leadership CTI has vastly expanded the number of magazines it publishes and the audience it reaches. The CTI website explains that more than 2.5 million readers currently receive the organization's 11 publications that include Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, Campus Life, Today's Christian Woman, Marriage Partnership, Christian History & Biography, Your Church, Today's Christian, Books & Culture, Christian Parenting Today, and Men of Integrity. In addition, CTI reaches additional people with these online offerings: PreachingToday.com, BuildingChurchLeaders.com, and the Christianity Today online magazine.

Reviews

[Bo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting biography of two missionaries who met and married, and then just several years into their marriage the wife developed leukemia. Overall, I felt it was a a reasonable book. It chronicles their meeting one another, courtship (such as it was), and marriage. The couple were honest with their feelings and struggles with leukemia entering their lives. However, I found the book had quite a sad quality about it, almost depressing. There were also a few times in the book that we were given, what I considered, "too much information" that added nothing to the story.

A thought I really appreciated was "Since they were first married, they had made a conscious effort to 'walk in each other's shoes' - to think through what the mate was experiencing." Good advice. While she was going through the battle with leukemia, his role as supportive mate wasn't easy either.

And another quote, "In my most holy moments, I'm still an unworthy sinner."

[Dot · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting read. Elsbeth son , Erik , is now pastor at my church.

[Esther · Rating 3 out of 5]

Elsbeth is Swiss nurse who marries an American doctor but after only four years of marriage she dies of leukemia. They are Christians.