Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey
Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands.

Sioux Center Sudan is the story of a missionary nurse's eight years on a tiny mission station in Nasir, Sudan, during the 1950s—the golden age of missions in America. There, Arlene faced immense challenges and yet learned to trust God in spite of the difficulties, including her unwanted expulsion from the country in 1963. Only decades later would she finally see the fruit of her work.

Filled with fascinating details of intense medical situations, stories of God's faithfulness, and periods of deep and personal grief, Arlene's journal entries could serve as a chapter in any textbook on the history of medical missions. Arlene's story also intersects with those of other contemporary women missionaries including Elisabeth Elliot, Eleanor Vandevort (A Leopard Tamed), and Betty Greene, pilot and co-founder of Missionary Aviation Fellowship. Quotes from letters between these women are included in the book.
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Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey
Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands.

Sioux Center Sudan is the story of a missionary nurse's eight years on a tiny mission station in Nasir, Sudan, during the 1950s—the golden age of missions in America. There, Arlene faced immense challenges and yet learned to trust God in spite of the difficulties, including her unwanted expulsion from the country in 1963. Only decades later would she finally see the fruit of her work.

Filled with fascinating details of intense medical situations, stories of God's faithfulness, and periods of deep and personal grief, Arlene's journal entries could serve as a chapter in any textbook on the history of medical missions. Arlene's story also intersects with those of other contemporary women missionaries including Elisabeth Elliot, Eleanor Vandevort (A Leopard Tamed), and Betty Greene, pilot and co-founder of Missionary Aviation Fellowship. Quotes from letters between these women are included in the book.
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Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey

Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey

by Jeff Barker
Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey

Sioux Center Sudan: A Missionary Nurse's Journey

by Jeff Barker

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Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands.

Sioux Center Sudan is the story of a missionary nurse's eight years on a tiny mission station in Nasir, Sudan, during the 1950s—the golden age of missions in America. There, Arlene faced immense challenges and yet learned to trust God in spite of the difficulties, including her unwanted expulsion from the country in 1963. Only decades later would she finally see the fruit of her work.

Filled with fascinating details of intense medical situations, stories of God's faithfulness, and periods of deep and personal grief, Arlene's journal entries could serve as a chapter in any textbook on the history of medical missions. Arlene's story also intersects with those of other contemporary women missionaries including Elisabeth Elliot, Eleanor Vandevort (A Leopard Tamed), and Betty Greene, pilot and co-founder of Missionary Aviation Fellowship. Quotes from letters between these women are included in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683072027
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/03/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 225,601
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Jeff Barker teaches theater and worship arts at Northwestern College and the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. When not teaching, you can find him in a theater or on a film set, orchestrating story-focused worship for a local church or a national conference, or challenging his students to a game of chess.



Arlene Schuiteman (b. 1924) grew up during the Great Depression on a farn north of Sioux Center, Iowa. During World War II, she taught at a one-room school. Then she experienced a supernatural event that led her to Africa and a 33-year career as a public health nurse and teacher of nurses in the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Zambia. In 2005, Arlene met Jeff Barker, who eventually wrote a series of plays based on Arlene's amazing adventures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue xv

1 Did You Ever Want To Be a Nurse? 1

2 The Glowing Girl 8

3 A Torn Triangle 15

4 The Reason Why I Cry 23

5 You-Will-Be-Good, Daughter-of-John 28

6 Fishing Day 40

7 South Sudan, July 1955 49

8 Night in the Village 78

9 I Am a Dog 87

10 Beginnings 92

11 Where's the Good? 97

12 Nyakota's Feet 102

13 Jok Jak 108

14 Yuol 114

15 Spending the day in Heaven 126

16 The Fly 136

17 The Boy Who Fell 142

18 The Unscrupulous God 154

19 With Painful Labor 162

20 Do You Know Any Disciples? 170

21 We Will Not See Your Eyes Again 193

22 The Sobat River Overflows 202

Selected Bibliography 209

Photographs 213

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