Helen Roseveare

She worked with Worldwide Evangelization Crusade in the Congo from 1953 to 1973, including part of the period of political instability in the early 1960s.

[2] Her father was Martin Roseveare, the designer of ration books for the United Kingdom used during the Second World War.

She was involved with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, attending prayer meetings, Bible study classes and evangelical events.

Her touching story about the prayer of Ruth, 10-year-old African girl, for a hot water bottle to save a premature newborn baby after its mother had died has been widely forwarded by email.

[6] She survived rape and trial during the Congolese civil war in 1964 because of the intervention of the villagers she had helped previously.