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In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Anabaptists --- Americans --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- War relief --- Disaster relief --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Catabaptists --- Habans --- Reformation --- Baptists --- Peasants' War, 1524-1525 --- Civilian relief --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Bechtel, Elsie, --- Brethren in Christ Church --- BICC --- Brethren in Christ --- Church of the Brethren in Christ --- Lavercantière (France)