Challenged by Women

<p>Plenty of women—and a few good men—have made Shirley Bathgate into the woman she is today.</p><p>In this autobiography/memoir she relives her childhood in Detroit where she enjoyed exploring the alleys and playing at the big fire station at the end of her block with her brother and cousin.</p><p>But life wasn’t without hardships. After her father completed basic training he was shipped overseas where he spent almost a month going from unit to unit until he winded up at the last major battle of World War II—the Battle of the Bulge—where he died December 21 1944 in his first real day of action.</p><p>As an adult she went on vacation to more than twenty countries in Eastern and Western Europe South America Asia two former Soviet Central Asian republics Africa Australia New Zealand and Fiji.</p><p>She shares her experiences as a missionary in ten countries with six different mission organizations including her work helping missionary James Kilgore photograph and interview women from the Central Asian republics who converted from Islam to Christianity.</p>