Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant: Two Years of Triumph and Sorrow in Liberia, Africa

Jerome Cabeen

May 2011 · Trafford Publishing

About this ebook

Liberia, Africa was a country that became synonymous for corruption, poverty and death. Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor were warlords that razed a once beautiful land and brought down terror on innocent Liberians. Author Jerome Cabeen stepped off a plane in September of 2008 into the unknown world of West Africa and Liberia. Along with his wife Clarisa he had come to the war-torn and desolate country to serve as a Catholic missionary for one year.

God had other plans.

Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant is a chronicle of the triumphs and sorrows experienced by Cabeen while serving in Liberia. Questions of faith, truth and self sacrifice were constant and sometimes overwhelming obstacles in his path while living in the country. It is a riveting and tragic account of the death and destruction that swept through all parts of Liberia from 1980 until 2003 during two separate civil wars and what one Catholic mission is doing to re-build the country and save its children.

David Dionisi, founder and President of Teach Peace Foundation says of the book:

It is a fascinating, real world story about compassion and courage. This is a must read for any Catholic or person that has empathy for the suffering of others.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great book. Easy to read, but difficult to handle the tragedy and sorrow in its pages. The author has a great sense of humor and this lends to the triumphant stories of mission children in Liberia. It is memorable, for sure!

Great book, able to really visualize the country and part of their story

About the author

Jerome Cabeen served as a Catholic Missionary in Honduras, Central America from 2004 until 2008. During his time in Honduras he made missionary visits to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia and Colombia. He married Clarisa Chavarria-Lara in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in June of 2008 and shortly there-after the couple embarked upon a journey as missionaries to Liberia, Africa from 2008 until 2010.

While in Africa Cabeen and his wife made stops in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, South Africa and Swaziland.

Jerome Cabeen is a native of Houston, Texas and graduated from Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas in 1990 with a degree in Fine Arts. He taught and coached basketball in Houston and Orlando, Florida for twelve years before hearing the call to become a missionary in 2003. “Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant” is Cabeen’s first book. Jerome and Clarisa reside in Beaumont, Texas with their cat “Hendrix”.

Make sure to visit Jerome and “Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant” on FACEBOOK as well as at : www.readreluctantservant.com