Week 11: Darlene Deibler Rose
Character Traits: Perseverance, Evangelism, Faith/Faithfulness, Love, Obedience, Prayerfulness
One year after Darlene accepted Christ into her life, she felt the Lord’s strong call to missions as she listened to a missionary speak at a church in Boone, Iowa. Several years after hearing this inspiring testimony, she heard another missionary speaker by the name of Russel Deibler who would change the course of her life forever. After hearing him speak, the two were introduced and quickly became life-long friends. They were happily wed August 18th, 1937, and went to Papua New Guinea as missionaries. Life was beautiful and full for Darlene as she shared the great love of her Savior with those she loved most.
Life soon began to unravel as her team heard on the radio about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As inhabitants on an island in the Pacific, Darlene and her team soon became captives of the Japanese Imperial army. Russell along with most other men in their compound were separated from the women and loaded into trucks for transport to a prison camp. As the truck pulled away, Russell’s parting words to his wife quoted Hebrews 13:5,
“Remember one thing, dear: God said that He would never leave us nor forsake us.”
Little did Darlene know that those would be the last words she would ever hear from her husband. Darlene was soon taken by the Japanese to the Benteng Tinggi Internment camp, the first of various POW camps she would experience over the next four years. Most of the people who went there did not survive. During this time, the Lord opened many doors for Darlene to evangelize to those around her, including Yamaji, the chief supervisor of the Kampili POW Camp.
After surviving the war, Darlene remarried and spent most of her life doing what she loved best: frontier missions work with those not yet reached. She went into the Lord’s presence in 2004. Darlene’s testimony is a profound story of God’s constant provision and steadfast love. Our sovereign God will never forsake us or leave us!
"I was to discover, however, that when I took my eyes off the circumstances that were overwhelming me, over which I had no control, and looked up, my Lord was there…deep in my heart He whispered, “I’m here. Even when you don’t see me, I’m here. Never for a moment are you out of my sight.”
―Darlene Deibler Rose
Image credit: darlenerose.org—Photo courtesy of Dr.and Mrs. William K. Henry, Rose family archives.“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Easy Recipe from the country of Papua New Guinea: Banana Cake Papuan-style
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Ingredients:
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 medium size bananas (mashed)
1 tsp baking soda
1½ cups of all purpose flour
1 ½ tsps baking powder
1/2 cup of milk – well enough to give it the right texture, wet, but not runny.
Instructions:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and lightly flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla extract until creamy.
Gradually beat in eggs and mix in mashed bananas.
Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and milk until wet. Fold into banana mixture.
Pour batter into the cake pan.
Bake for 45–50 minutes until a toothpick in centre comes out clean.
Chocolate-Coconut Sauce
Ingredients:
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup coconut milk
Instructions:
Finely chop chocolate in a food processor.
Place chopped chocolate in a mixing bowl.
Heat the coconut milk in the microwave (approx. 1 1/2 minutes) or in a saucepan until boiling. (Stir intermittently to prevent scalding.)
Pour the milk over the chocolate, ensuring the milk completely covers the chocolate.
Cool the chocolate mixture for 30-40 minutes. After it has cooled for about 10 minutes and looks melted, gently stir.
Beat the mixture until smooth.
Biography:
Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose
