Catching Their Talk In A Box

Catching Their Talk in a Box is one of our history read aloud books from our Core C with Sonlight. My children begged to read it and our oldest wanted to read it out loud to everyone himself! 

This book was excellent and gave me chills throughout. It is the story of Joy Ridderhof who was a missionary to a large portion of the world in the mid 1900s for 45 years. This was like reading George Mueller with stories we hear from a dear friend and Worker in the Field in Africa and it was beautiful. 

At 13 Joy was saved by the grace of God and immediately saw the need to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Early in life she went to Honduras and saw the need to get the Word of God into the language of the native people of the country. As she saw the needs around her, she took all of her requests to the LORD and, like George Mueller, she never told anyone of her need but took it to the LORD in prayer and watched Him provide everything she needed to do the work He gave her to do. 

Joy's work was focused on getting Bible stories on records for people in their native language and providing a player for them to listen to the stories. It is incredible to read story after story as she traveled all over the world, recording stories and giving the Gospel to unreached people groups in their native language. Today our friend is doing the same in Africa and teaching others to tell the stories also!

I cannot recommend this book enough! It is a beautiful picture of God's grace and provision as well as a much needed reminder of the power of prayer! 

Five stars for this missionary biography! It was loved by the whole family!

Reading Challenges:

I'm using this book for the Tim Challies 2020 Reading Challenge as a book by or about a missionary in the Avid reader section. 

For the Modern Mrs Darcy 2020 Reading Challenge this is a book published the decade I was born.