His Banner Over Me Is Love

About the Book

This is a brief autobiography, not in any way trying to summarize my life, but rather to highlight points of God’s intervention. Coming from a poor rural family in Kenya, Africa, I had no reason to expect much from life. However, my father believed in me at a time when women were just expected to serve men within the home, so he decided to send me to school.

Having been taught about God at home, I wanted to know more about Him when I went to school. In 1957, I had a personal encounter with Him, and my life was never the same. I came to identify myself with the Apostle Paul when he says:

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to...all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also as to one abnormally born. For I am the least...but by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect (1 Corinthians 15:3-10).

The book is my attempt to pass on to the younger generation what I have received from the Lord. I have experienced many miracles that culminated in my coming to America, where God has continued to surprise me, almost on a daily basis. I want my readers to know that though they may be the least in eyes of the world, once they put their faith in the God of the Bible, His grace will be sufficient in all of life’s circumstances. He is no respecter of persons. He blesses men, women, and children, black, white, slave and free!

About the Author

Mary Nyambura Muchiri is an associate professor of English at Taylor University, Indiana, U.S.A.  She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, U.K.  Her other books are Communication Skills: A Self-Study Course for Universities and Colleges.  Longman Kenya, and Saved Through Fire: A Family Experiences Kenya's War of Independence, Guardian Books.

She has also contributed chapters in Changing Images by Anna P. Obura (Ed.); Society and the Language Classroom by Hawel Coleman (Ed.); On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998 by Lisa Ede (Ed.), and Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective edited by David Foster and David R. Russell.

Her interests include research in college writing, colonial and post colonial literature, and women's issues.