When You Don’t Know if You Can Keep Going: An Interview with Margaret Greaves (Season 2, Episode 17)

Today I’m chatting with Margaret Greaves—a widow, mother and grandmother. Margaret moved to Western Australia at 12 years old when her parents became missionaries at Cundeelee, 160km east of Kalgoorlie, with the Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission. Margaret spent most of her life in remote areas in and around Esperance, as a midwife, child health nurse, farmer’s wife, and running a fishing business.

Margaret shares about her ongoing fear throughout her life—borne of physical isolation in remote locations, a non-Christian husband, and mental health struggles of her son—that she could not keep enduring as a Christian. She also describes how God continued to care for her and provide the women to walk with her. Margaret has a quiet ministry of prayer and phone calls to parents whose children struggle with mental health.