What They Meant for Evil

One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000 after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when at the age of four her village was attacked and she had to escape. WHAT THEY MEANT FOR EVIL is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses dodging life-threatening predators-lions snakes crocodiles and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps and grappling with a war that stole her childhood.

Her story is a lyrical captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime and how through divine intervention she came to America and found a new life full of joy hope and redemption.