Foreword by Paul Zehr • 9
Acknowledgments • 11
Author's Preface by Louise Stoltzfus • 13

1 Highly Favored Among Women • 19
Amanda Musselman

2 His Wife Then Took Charge • 39
Lydia Stauffer Sauder Mellinger

3 Planting Trees in Africa • 56
Phebe Ethel Yoder

4 I Wrote Irvin's Sermons • 77
Minnie Eberly Holsopple Good

5 The Back-Around Work • 89
Esther Mellinger Bair

6 Will You Go with Me to Africa? • 101
Catharine Garber Leatherman

7 The Lord Put the Ideas in My Mind • 117
Mary Hottenstein Lauver

8 Your Father's Mantle • 129
Jean Kraybill Shenk

9 An Ordinary Country Girl • 143
Lena Horning Brown

10 Where the Word of God Was Taught, People Believed • 159
Mattie Cooper Nikiema

11 The Question? • 171
Elizabeth Landis Nissley

12 My Spirit Soared • 187
Miriam Book

13 It's Beautiful to Be a Woman • 197
Janet Breneman

14 Blessed by the Church • 215
Sylvia Shirk Charles

Notes • 227
Bibliography • 243
The Author • 247
About Herald Press, Pandora Press, and Pandora Press U.S. • 248