PETE'S STORY
By Rachel Jackson
Eagle. 270 pages. £5.99
ISBN 0 86347 381 4
This is a moving, true story of the author's son who is 'randomly' killed by cattle rustlers in Kenya while he is spending his gap year as an aid worker.
We see Pete grow up from youngest in a missionary family, struggling through separation, loneliness and boarding school into a vibrant Christian young man. Much is taken from his letters home and later the journal he kept during and following his discipleship training course with YWAM. The style is readable, though perhaps a little too concerned with details, which can be distracting and confusing to the flow. However, Pete himself emerges as a warm, godly and committed young man who was already having a great influence on the people he met for the gospel. His desire was to be 'a man of God'. Although his life ended so abruptly, I hope this book will encourage others, particularly other 19 year-olds, to have a similar desire, clearly one of the hopes of the author, his mother.
