Exploration in Asian jungles. Penetration of dark canyons cut off from the light of the gospel. Constant spiritual warfare. Persevering prayer that overcomes the obstacles. Joy from communion with God despite discouragement from lack of results and demonic oppression. Accounts of light overcoming darkness as whole villages came to Christ. The biography of James O. Fraser offers all this and more.
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The sneering condescension of a university professor shattered young Isobel Kuhn’s comfortable Christianity. She began to question the foundation of her worldview, formed in a conservative Christian home in Canada. Kuhn entered the party scene of the 1920s, seeking meaning and finding none. Join Isobel Kuhn’s quest for truth that led her to Christ and then to China.
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Romance. Capture by pirates. Rescue from the French Revolution. Storms at sea in wooden ships. Death prison. Sacrifice to save others. Gospel advance. Faith in the face of unthinkable trials. Devastating loneliness and God’s provision. Triumphant fruit in a dark land after decades of perseverance.
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How is the martyrdom of a young couple in their twenties a triumph? Caught in a brutal civil war in 1930s China, John and Betty Stam gave their lives as they took the gospel to those who had never heard.
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After a few chapters of summary, the author makes observations and applications from Paton’s ministry to God’s leading, the Christian family, and missions philosophy.
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Geoffrey Bull drops us into the middle of his story among the mountain peaks of Tibet. God opened the door for gospel advance in the aftermath of World War II, and Bull boldly walked through, the only missionary in Tibet at the time.
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How did David Brainerd’s brief twenty-nine-year life inspire William Carey, Henry Martyn, John Wesley, Jim Elliot, and countless others to lives of dedication and service to God? The answer lies in Jonathan Edward’s classic publication of Brainerd’s diary and a more recent biography by Vance Christie.
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Trotter, a wealthy young woman from an aristocratic British family, turned her back on a promising artistic career to become a missionary to Muslim women in the north African nation of Algeria. Despite a heart condition that caused mission boards to reject her candidacy, she labored self-supported in this difficult field for four decades.
George keeps the story moving without skipping over any crucial events in this account of the beginning of the modern missions movement.
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In Goforth of China, Rosalind Goforth recounts her husband’s life story. She traces his transformation from a humble Ontario farm boy, to a misunderstood Bible college student, to a fruitful missionary, and finally to an impassioned revivalist.
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