Every Square Inch: A Nigerian Missionary Memoir

Reverend Dr Jan Boer and his wife Frances Boer-Prins dedicated three decades of their lives to the mission field in central Nigeria. Raised in the Reformed Calvinist tradition of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd, the Boers brought to their mission work an approach anchored on the total gospel… The Boers have left an impermeable legacy in Nigeria. There is
a glory that lightens the path of those who have laboured that others may find life. I commend this book to those who affirm the ethical approach to life and to living a life of service to others.
–Dr Obadiah Mailafia
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria & Former Presidential
Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC

Having arrived in Nigeria just before the civil war broke out barely one year later, Rev Dr and Mrs Boer can be considered prime witnesses with a front seat in Nigeria’s chequered history. I encountered him in my younger days during his work at the Institute for Church and Society, Jos. The Institute was a most strategic and prophetic outpost which, had we foreseen the prophetic urgency of its message then, its work would have helped the nation avert the decay of corruption and inequalities that have consumed our country. A record of Dr Boer’s experience should serve as a token of appreciation for the labours of people like him and provide a sense of urgency in the struggle to use the Gospel to renew the face of the earth.