“The book is as painful to read as a marathon is to run. Yet, it is a must read for both believers and the secular if one has an interest in these matters.”
Dave Jenkins, a longtime missionary in Uganda and Rwanda (and someone I wrote about in The Child Catchers), shares his eloquent thoughts on the book, missionary work and adoption at Hekima: The Great Lakes Messenger.
Many of his points are a profound reflection of the shared observations of old-school missionaries, who live in a country for years or decades, and international child protection workers. Often, it seems, both have come to similar conclusions about the problems, and the best way forward: “I was thrilled to read our old missionary mentor’s words restated in Ms. Joyce’s book by UNICEF’s Doug Webb stating, ‘If you build an orphanage, it will be filled with kids.'”
