A collection of traditional fables from Zaire each used to illustrate some aspect of Christian teaching. Eudene Keidel, the compiler, and her husband, Levi, spent more than twenty years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1951-81). They worked with the Congo Mennonite Church under African Inter-Mennonite Mission in church planting, Bible teaching, and pastoral leadership development. Eudene helped to establish several medical clinics, training Congolese nurses in infant delivery, nutrition, and public health. She was a registered nurse, Bloomington (IL) School of Nursing (1948).