EenScre 08-01-01 Screams in the Desert Hope and Humor for Women in Cross-Cultural Ministry Sue Eenigenburg William Carey Library, 2007, 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-87808-517-0

Sue Eenigenburg has been a missionary for more than twenty years, twelve of them living with her husband and four children in the Middle East. With wit and insight she helps us understand many of the incongruities and traumas of a family living in another culture. Her self-deprecating humor is really funny. She really did learn some good lessons. And whether you are living in another culture or your own, you can too - at her expense! The book is written as a series of devotionals. Is it spiritual for devotionals to start out funny? It surely is fun. She tells of 52 experiences (and her reactions) and follows each one with a section of Scripture from The Message, a few thought-provoking questions, a suggested action, and a prayer. Here are a few chapter titles: ● Terrorists and Chocolate Cake ● Getting Into Hot Water ● Reverse Psychology and God ● Suicide and Laundry ● Listen, God, I'm Speaking ● Language Learning Made Difficult ● If I were a Warthog ● It's Me Again, Lord, and I Need Your Help ● A Godly Car? ● I Gave God My Life, But Not My Toothbrush ● Third Culture Kids, Peanut Butter and GI Joe ● To Hide or to Confess, That is the Question How can anyone resist a book with chapter titles like these?

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