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God's Gentle Giant is the story of John and Billie Barrett's work with Pastor Ernest Kabole Okhonya and the creation of a new mission in Kenya, East Africa. A new clinic and a new free school for orphans from the area were built. It's also the story of the many obstacles in building this new mission. John and Billie had to go into hiding for three months after being threatened with death by a former member of parliament who had become the chai...

This is the inspiring story of the work of John and Billie Barret in the bush country of Kenya, East Africa.Billie, a nurse, was used of God to build a medical complex, in an area without electricity, running water and very little money.John and their adopted Kenyan son, Thad Omari, developed Christ centered primers in the Swahili dialect. In two years his students were able to write and to read the Bible. Some are pastors of their own churche...

When a long-term illness left her bedridden with little to do but read, Billie Barrett's husband brought her a Bible to help pass the hours. As Billie read through the giant book, God spoke to her soul, drawing her to profess faith in Christ and, eventually, calling her and her family to the mission field.In the years that followed, Billie and her husband served locals as well as other missionaries in Africa and South America, and Incredible J...