“Homily was brief. Archbishop Joseph Henry Ganda laid hands on those he was ordaining and hurriedly SENT them on their missions. A handful of anxious faces crammed on a few benches inside St Antony’s Parish in Kingtom where the ordination was taking place followed the ceremony, muttering responses in quivery voices. Fear reigned at St Antony’s Parish. Heavy shooting could be heard outside. The streets of Freetown were desolate. Rebels had taken the city. At the end of the ceremony, everyone scampered away for safety. Back at Fr Peter’s home in Kingtom where the priest’s reception was scheduled to take place, the family stared at empty chairs and mountains of food.  But no food was going to waste that day. “Starving IDPs in camps need the last scrap of this food,” Archbishop Ganda told Fr Peter, assigning the newly ordained priest his first pastoral task. Fr Peter dived straight into humanitarian work on the day of his ordination.”

This book is full of luscious anecdotes detailing Fr Peter's experiences. Very few sob stories and even lesser boring hard facts. Anecdotes such as Fr Peter’s encounter with the infamous Captain Bockarie nicknamed Mosquito. And why as a young Seminarian, he was gifted three women at a certain village where he had gone for pastoral work and how he once landed in trouble for hiding newborn twins at the parish house. There are many other anecdotes, very juicily crafted to take your mind off more serious narrations in the book.