Do Unto Others

Even if everything had gone as planned, Dr. Lucas Stuart and his fellow missionaries would have found their task a dangerous and daunting one. They not only had committed to serve as medical missionaries at a remove Angolan medical outpost in 1970, but found that they were unwittingly signed on for a life-and-death struggle against seemingly insurmountable challenges. They were forced to pit their knowledge, skills and Christian faith against formidable diseases, hostile natives, the scarcity of modern medicine, widespread poverty and the constantly changing elements.

To make matters worse, Lucas and his medical team found themselves unwilling participants in a brutal civil war that would test their courage, faith and fortitude to the limit. This set them off on journeys that would bring them face to face with extraordinary challenges, ranging from unpredictable terrain and aggressive rebels to the newly-emerging Ebola virus, thieves, savage crocodiles and human-slave traffickers.

One thing was for certain, Lucas had not expected to fall deeply in love, in the midst of the turmoil, with his nurse Angela Abercrombie, setting them off on a different sort of journey, with their unlikely companion, an intensely loyal dog named Iuba. For Lucas and Angela, the harrowing travels and endeavours through the toughest jungles and savannah regions of Africa, was also a journey of the heart.

-- Jonathan T Marshall