Sister Merle Wilde grew up in Kniveton, Derbyshire, but spent many years working in Kenya. At the age of 95, she wrote a book "From Kniveton to Kenya" which tells the story of her call to ministry in East Africa and the UK.
The book is priced £5 with profits going to the Methodist Church’s World Mission Fund. It is on sale at Ashbourne Methodist Church, Brailsford Methodist Church and other local churches. If you live further afield, please contact us for details of mail order (postage & packaging charged at £1.60)
Sister Merle first went to Kenya in 1957 and, with short visits back to the UK, served the Meru District until 1971 when she returned as her mother was unwell. Over the next ten years she served in Notting Hill, Bristol and Coventry before she officially retired in 1981.
After her ‘retirement’, she moved back to Ashbourne and continued to work, particularly in Brailsford, Kniveton and Kirk Ireton, where she was a regular visitor to local schools. Sister Merle died, aged 96, on 14th November 2017.