Shirley Alberta Roberts Combs was born a preacher's daughter in Oklahoma. She loved life, and her family heritage exposed her and her five siblings to the best in music, hometown pride, God, country, education, school participation, and to many communities and cultures. Numerous foreign and home missionaries visited their home. This opened her heart to the great things God was doing around the world. Shirley lived in 15 different houses before she was married and met new friends and left numerous old friends. So, at an early age, she began recording her many experiences and friends in journals and photos. She has continued that throughout her life.Shirley Roberts went to Free Will Baptist Bible College in Tennessee after surrendering her life to God's call in missions. She met her husband, Jim Combs, at FWBBC and together they went to Brazil, S.A., as career missionaries in 1964, after one year of marriage. Their three children-Kemper, Cindy and T nia- were born in their adopted country. "Dona Shirley," as she is known to her Brazilian friends, was involved in numerous ministries: church planting, women's work, music, drama, Bible Institute and Seminary training, camps for youth and families, preparing VBS literature, teaching English as a second language, and in children's ministry. Since 1991 Shirley has added the ministry of rescuing needy children from the streets of Brazil and has established Lar Nova Vida (New Life Home) in the city of Araras. After more than 40 years of ministry in the largest South American country, Jim and Shirley retired in 2008, resettling in Oklahoma near their Brazilian-born children and grandchildren. But their ministry with Lar Nova Vida continues as they represent and promote the ministry, educate church groups, and encourage sponsorship.
Readers will be transported in their minds to experience life in homes, in the jungles, among the impoverished, and among the wealthy. Every humble encounter will be a demonstration of God's love. Compelled to share Christ with those who didn't know Him, Jim and Shirley Combs uprooted to Brazil in 1964 and boldly opened their gate and their doors to people from many walks of life. Their compassion, openness and personal sacrifice have served to draw people to the Savior-Brazilians, Americans, those from other nations and people from the streets.
An unforgettable story of rescuing Brazil's street children by a lady, who with her husband and children, spent 40 years with true compassion to help the helpless in giving them a second chance.
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
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