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.

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.

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…

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…