Foreword and acknowledgement -- Preface / Hugh Kemp -- My ordinary childhood (1934-1952) -- Bed pans afloat (1953-1957) -- Start of a serving life (1958-1960) -- Knots in the rope (1961-1963) -- Notches in the log (1963-1964) -- The land beneath the wind (1965-1966) -- "There are crocodiles in this swamp" (1967-1968) -- Rivers, revivals and longhouses (1969-1976) -- Marry a grandfather (1976-1992) -- River stones (1992-2016) -- Maximum support in Mongolia -- The end of the beginning (with Hugh P. Kemp) -- Appendix A.: Questions for reflection -- Appendix B: Poems.

"As a butcher's daughter from Southland, New Zealand, Margaret Currie didn't consider herself remarkable. Indeed, a strained relationship with her father and a distant relationship with her mother drove her to introversion and self-doubt. The in an encounter with God as a teenager, Margaret head God's call for Christian service in Asia. Would that even be possible, with Communism on the rise in the East, and the strong temptation to settle down to a comfortable life in New Zealand? Serving life is the inspiring story of how God called an ordinary girls from a New Zealand farm, into a life of extraordinary adventure and influence across South East and Central Asia"--Page 4 of cover.