She has been celebrated by the princely and noble as well as the lowly and oppressed. She is known by many names—"The Angel of the Desert," "Blood Brother to the Bedouin," and "A'raisa, the Leader"—and through "honors" bestowed upon her by Queen Elizabeth, she is entitled to be known as Dame Aileen Coleman. One dignitary lovingly referred to her as "one of the greatest servants God ever put on His earth."
Medical missionary Aileen Coleman humbly shuns such pretentious and flowery titles, maintaining she is only "a desert rat."
Her longtime friend, Franklin Graham, president of the Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse, asks, "How is it possible that this lady from Bundaberg, Australia, could turn the Arab world upside down?"
The story of her faithfulness and servanthood through four decades of ministry in the Middle East could change your life forever.
Annette Adams, author, speaker, poet, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, has written two books. The Desert Rat is her first. Franklin Graham and his Samaritan's Purse bought and distributed 10,000 copies within the first 18 months of publication.
Her second, Written with Rhyme and Reason, is a book of poetry that catches the current in events, covering everything from politics to puppy dogs.
She has been married to Lane Adams for over 56 years. They have one daughter, Susie Moore (Mrs. T.M. Moore), four grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. She and her family reside in Concord, Tennessee.
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