Eva Von Winkler—Sister Eva

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Eva Von Winkler, often known as “Sister Eva,” or “Mother Eva,” is among the women included in the They Knew Their God Series. In Volume One, Edwin and Lillian Harvey tell how this remarkable woman, brought up in an ancestral castle in South Eastern Germany, eventually established a sisterhood in Friedenshort. Here, Sister Eva and her fellow sisters, ministered to anyone in need—the elderly no longer cared for by their own family, children without a home, and the sick in need of loving attention.

In the ” The Call Back Series” written and compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, there is a chapter in Loneliness, the first volume of the series, entitled “Eva Von Winkler Calls Back.” When nervous exhaustion overtook Sister Eva in the midst of her work, she was set aside for seven long years. This “detour” she later remarked, “was necessary to prepare me for His service.” She had realized that she was “sinking into the rut of duties in a so-called Christian work, and missing the highest.” (Illness, p. 26.)
“Side-tracked, my Lord, amid some pain and loss,
Unfit to strive amid the lab’ring throng,
Weakened and spent—yet whatso’er the cross,
Resting in Thee, Who art forever strong.”
—Fred Brooks. (ibid)

You may read more about this remarkable woman in They Knew Their God Volume One and Illness. Both these books are published by Harvey Christian Publishers and are available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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