Alice Joyce Hutcheson has led an extraordinary life. Her story is at once entertaining, meaningful, poignant and humorous. She is a consummate musician, a leader and mentor to thousands of young women through Pioneer Girls, and a world traveler. Her adventures and achievements weave in, around and through her lifelong devotion to healing. Her early decision to pursue nursing has enhanced a deep and abiding love of people and of life.

She has ministered to a young boy in the wilds of Tanzania and to a President. She has dealt with both the doyennes of society and its underground...