This volume emerged out of an almost fatal experience on the job. The prologue relates vivid details of an air-ambulance trip from the intensive-care unit at the Governor Juan Luis Hospital, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, to Miami Beach, Florida, as the author sought the expertise of an electro-physiologist.

Looking back at her entire life’s experience, the author concluded that she had much to share with fellow travelers.

The story takes the reader from Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean, through Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Antigua, to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the author and her husband now reside. The book is filled with intrigue, happy times and heartaches, goals achieved and disappointments, near death encounters and true love.

As the author has experienced God’s care throughout her adventurous life, she can only be very grateful, and this book expresses her appreciation to God and all whose lives touched hers in positive ways.

About the Author

Gloria ‘Patsy’ Josiah nee Murrell, has spent forty-two years with her minister husband, John, in active missionary service in the Caribbean. Gloria, who is originally from Trinidad and Tobago attended Morvant Anglican Elementary, Bishop Anstey High School and Caribbean Union College, now the University of the Southern Caribbean. She has lived on seven Caribbean islands.

Gloria completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Economics at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, and a Master of Arts Degree in Education Administration, at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. She has taught on four islands, worked as a statistician on another, and retired as an evaluation specialist with the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Education.

She has been actively involved in Family Life education and Youth Leadership for many years. Gloria enjoys writing and has published several articles and letters in newspapers and religious magazines. She also enjoys walking and gardening. Her life companion, John R. Josiah, is the immediate past President of the North Caribbean Conference of Seventh-day Adventists with headquarters in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

Gloria and John have three adult children: Ronald A. Josiah, tutor, Avonelle Josiah Dorant, physician, and Cryston E. Josiah, clergyman. They also have seven lively grandchildren, whom they enjoy visiting in Fishers, Indiana, and St. Louis, Missouri.

In this volume, Gloria shares some significant experiences, the most thrilling of which occurred on the rugged, nature island of Dominica, and the most challenging on Barbados.

Reader's Comment

This is an intimate, frank, personal portrayal of love, devotion, frustration, joy, sorrow, and satisfaction in the life of a minister’s wife. It is easy, interesting reading which carries you along the smooth, rugged, hilly, deep paths of pastoral and administrative church life, as experienced and seen from the viewpoint of a shepherdess, who shares completely in the life and work of her shepherd husband.

Having known them both and having stayed in their home on occasional visits to their parish, including the Dominica experience, I truly enjoyed reading the manuscript. I heartily recommend the reading of this book to all those engaged in the pastoral ministry – husbands and wives, and those who look forward to doing so, as well as anyone who wishes to enjoy a fascinating story of God’s leading in the lives of this adventurous couple.

Elder G. Ralph Thompson
Former Executive Secretary
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA