Sarah Elisabet Oftedal of the Martha and Mary House
April 14, 2008
Martha and Mary House provides a home for pregnant women in crisis. Its housemother, Sarah Elisabet Oftedal, in talking about her journey to Orthodox Christianity, says, “I felt a glimmer of hope that Christianity was real and could save me from nothingness. Since I could not prove it false, I made a desperate leap of faith across the abyss of what seemed absurd and promised God that I would live the rest of my life as if He was there.” I could have said those same words myself!
But Sarah Elisabet really lives those words. Here’s more about her journey and her current work.
(photo credit to Jim Forest)
I hope you feel better, too!!!
I had the great pleasure of meeting her at our Parish Ministries Conference last year, and she is a lovely person.
What a pleasure finding your material. My new, more relevent “name” is faithswork.blogspot.com. We’ve been chrismated Orthodox about 14 years; and was a Protestant pastor over 35 years before that. My dad came from Norway- so I was wondering about the Kristinsdottir name. God bless.