Reviews for History of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria

The average rating for History of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-31 00:00:00 Gerarda Garcia The biography of Oswald J.Smith, this book is aptly called 'Fire in his bones' for that is surely what he had! Started off as a country bumpkin outside of London Ontario, Oswald, being one of ten, quickly learned the meaning of discipline and hardwork. After he was saved, a burning passion raged inside him to, not only preach, but to reach out to the many across our world who have never heard of Christ. While he becomes a pastor both in the States and later in Toronto, he travels all over the world, motivating the church for missions, and seeing revival fires start and spread as many come to Christ. He starts up People's Church in Toronto which quickly becomes a church on fire for missions as their pastor is. He also starts up numerous organizations including EFC and sees Bible schools open in Europe, writes countless hymns, numerous books which are translated into hundreds of languages. The list goes on and is a real encouragement to us to 'catch the vision', and 'spend all for Christ'.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-27 00:00:00 Cristel Hines "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" - Margo Channing (Bette Davis) Bette Davis was the one that wanted Charlotte Chandler to write this book about her. And Chandler does meet with her and has face to face conversations with her. I say this so people can know that it wasn't just someone that did research on her and put the book together. The author also interviewed directors, actors, and others who worked with Davis or knew her personally. This was a library check out but I loved this book SO much that I want to own it one day. You basically get to know about her whole life from how it was at the start, the struggles, how it was during filming of a movie, about her love interests, marriages, children..........I mean everything! I like that they really start at the beginning of her life and kinda take you through everything chronologically and give you a little bit of tidbits on, for example, what it was like to film such and such movie and was their drama going on behind the scenes. I admire Davis because she was a strong willed person that made her dreams come true but sometimes I disliked her. From interviews with some of the actors that worked with her they say that she was rude at times for no reason. Towards the end of the book she does reflect on her behavior and can link some of it towards the father that never paid attention to her. I mean that REALLY affected her because the father never showed any feelings and had abandoned the family when the girls were still young. Even when Davis was having success he never once said how proud he was and that really hurt her. In the middle of the books there are a couple of pages with photos and in the back they list the movies with a little bio. OH, they actually do that too throughout the book. Once they mentioned the next film she starred in they write in a small synopsis of the movie BUT it has spoilers! That is one thing I didn't like about it but at the same time she made so many fucken movies I doubt I will remember when I am watching one of her movies the ending from what I read in the book - unless if you are one of those rare people that remember almost everything I would say skip the synopsis parts. I highly recommend this book! Now I gotta say I have only seen like two of her movies before but I really liked Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and her acting that I became interested in her. Now I want the book so I can see in the back the movies she made and check them off as I go through them. I did end up seeing All About Eve when I was in the middle of the book, which when I came back to reading it the next movie was All About Eve and it was fun to know what went on during the filming. That lady sure was a great actress......but there is a few things I would of changed in the plot of All About Eve. Well........that's all folks.