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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Early biographers exalted Aylward as a hero. Screenwriters twisted her life story into a wartime romance in the 1958 movie, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Just months before she passed away in 1970, Aylward with the help of Christine Hunter tried to set the record right by writing her own autobiography, A Small Woman. However, this endearing book rambles in generalities, leaving out key details. In A London Sparrow, Phyllis Thompson does her research and puts together a compelling account of how God used the most unlikely of believers beyond all expectations.
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Ann Judson was the first American woman to join her husband in overseas missionary work. Her endurance and courage in the face of unthinkable trials and suffering will inspire you.
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If you want to read harrowing adventures of missionaries running from cannibals, then this is the missionary biography for you. However, this book contains much more than just action.
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