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English Christian missionary, doctor and author

Helen Roseveare (21 September 1925 – 7 December 2016) was an EnglishChristianmissionary, doctor and author.

She worked with Worldwide Evangelization Crusade in the Congo from 1953 to 1973, including part of the period of political instability in the early 1960s. She practised medicine and also trained others in medical work.^[1]

Biography

Helen Roseveare was born in Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, England in 1925.^[2] Her father was Martin Roseveare, the designer of ration books for the United Kingdom used during the Second World War.

Her brother, Bob Roseveare, was a wartime codebreaker. She became a Christian as a medical student at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1945. She was involved with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, attending prayer meetings, Bible study classes and evangelical events.^[3]

After completing her studies, Roseveare applied to WEC to be