November 25, 2008

Book Review: L'Abri

L’Abri by Edith Schaeffer is in essence a missionary book. In it the author shares how she and her husband—famous Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer—took their family to Switzerland. There they allowed God to work in their lives in such a way that a ministry to international students was developed—something quite unplanned.

Schaeffer recounts family difficulties, outside persecution, and disappointments enrout to the creation of a ministry that continues to be effective to this day. The end result is the foundation of L’Abri (French for “the refuge”) in the Swiss mountains. Here a generation of young people set on “finding themselves” actually found God.

Posted by Andrew on November 25, 2008 4:22 PM.