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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During the turbulent colonial era, a sickly British boy, named Hudson Taylor, comes to Christ and hears God’s call to China. Spurning the aristocratic society of his day, he turns to God alone for support during his medical studies, leaves for China under an unsteady mission, embraces local Chinese dress and diet, and launches into the interior of China with the gospel of Jesus Christ…
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Only in her early twenties, Darlene married a missionary and moved to Indonesia only to find herself in the path of the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia during World War II. Torn from her new husband and incarcerated in a women’s interment camp, Darlene learned to trust the Lord…
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William Carey’s heart raced as he leaned against the railing of the Kron Princess Maria.[1] The winds and tides had finally allowed the Danish ship to enter the Bay of Bengal on November 11, 1793. In the distance, Carey caught his first glimpse of the shores of India. He hoped it would not be his
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Eighteen-year-old Sarah Hall curled up in her New England home, her legs tucked beneath her voluminous 1700’s skirt.[1] Neither the chill of the room nor the hardness of the wooden chair distracted her from her book. She barely noticed her younger brothers and sisters as they noisily went about their business in the common room.
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