Read moreĮmily Evans feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? She enjoys her studies at the Bible school she is attending, but has a hard time figuring out God's will for her life. Her determination springs from caring about people, and she continues to care even when she doesn't have all the answers.Even as my perspective shifts and expands over the years, this is still the kind of novel I could read over again. Not because she feels strong or because she's out to prove herself to everybody. Tears in her eyes so often that they lose their effect and cease to be interesting.Yet, even with the overused stammers and tears, Emily is a strong heroine. Sentences with too many dashes as the heroine frequently stammers over her words.
The book spoke to me on a number of levels when I read it years ago, witnessing the obstacles a young woman faces when she takes a different path than people expect.Sure, the book has got some of the common things I've never been fond of in these novels. It's the first in one of my all-time favorite series, Women of the West, by one of my all-time favorite authors. However, with no potential husband in sight, Emily decides what's nearly unthinkable: she'll head out to open a church on her own in The Calling of Emily Evans, a novel by author Janette Oke.This is at least the third time I've read this novel. Desiring to be a wife and mother someday, she imagines she'll be ministering alongside a preaching husband.
Prairie settlements are in need of mission workers for local churches, and in Bible school, Emily responds to the call.
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