Journey with Bev through New Orleans, San Francisco, New York, and the Caribbean–destination Haiti, where she experiences darkness on a new level.
Writing from a place of transparency and vulnerability, Beverly shares her story beginning in San Francisco at the height of the hippie movement. During a near-death experience caused by a drug overdose, the Lord Jesus appeared to her, instantly changing her.
Sent by God on a mission, in 1989, Bev arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, wounded, betrayed, rejected, and ashamed after the breakup of a 20-year marriage. Thrown into a new culture, civil unrest, and suffering humanity, she and her two young daughters must learn at the feet of the Haitian people to survive daily challenges and lurking dangers while navigating the strange, dark, spiritual unknown.
Rich with historical highlights, current events, and cultural detail, Bev so vividly paints the beauty of Haiti and her people alongside the deep roots of darkness that have held many of these beautiful people in spiritual chains.
In My Journey in the Darkness, readers discover God walks with us through the deepest, darkest valleys and transports us to mountaintops.
EMERGING OUT OF THE DARKNESS: A MISSIONARY STORY
When a good or a great person's life comes to its final sunset, the skies of this world are illuminated until long after he is out of view. Such a person does not die from this world, for when he departs, he leaves much of himself behind, and being dead, he still speaks. Henry Ward Beecher
Emerging Out of the Darkness: A Missionary Story is set in Jacmel, Haiti, and covers thirteen years of Beverly's decades-long missionary journeys. Beverly invites you into her life, living among her adopted people in an underdeveloped, impoverished, and politically unstable nation with persistent social inequalities and danger and little access to education, health care, potable water, and electricity. She shares remarkable adventures – an earthquake, back-to-back mega-hurricanes, voodoo curses, zombies, bandits in the dark of night, PTSD, kidnappings, political manifestations, gangs, supernatural occurrences, child slaves, bugs, plagues, and tropical diseases.
She portrays intimate insight into Haiti, her people, culture, and current events while liberally sharing accounts of God's faithfulness and miraculous acts amid spiritual darkness and constant, often catastrophic chaos. This book, along with her previous one, My Journey in the Darkness: Haiti Through My Eyes, are excellent educational, entertaining, and inspirational reads for anyone who desires to broaden their cross-cultural knowledge and understanding or reach people outside the scope of their personal world experiences. Emerging Out of the Darkness is spiritually rich and a testimony to God's divine protection and provision.