Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 in Hertfordshire, England, and went to Cambridge University to study medicine at the end of the Second World War. There she began to attend the Cambridge Inter Collegiate Christian Union, the CICCU. Soon Helen received Christ and resolved that her medical skills would be used on the mission field and, upon qualifying, applied to the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (WEC) to be a medical missionary. Helen was a woman endowed with intelligence, skill and determination but with a tendency to be impatient, domineering and a perfectionist.
