Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
Growing up in the Southern Baptist Church, each Christmas we take up the Lottie Moon Foreign Mission offering. This goes to fund and assist foreign missionaries around the world. But, who was Lottie Moon? Why do we take up an offering in her name? Charlotte Digges Moon was born on December 12, 1840 in Albermarle County, Virginia. She was the […]
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Eric Liddell was brought to the world’s attention through the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. However, there is so much more to his story and he continued to stand up for his faith until the end. Eric Liddell was born on January 16, 1902 in Tientsin, China. He was the second son of Rev. and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, […]
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Marie Monsen was born in 1878 in Sandviken, Norway. She committed as a young woman to going to China and arrived for a 30-year mission there on September 1, 1901. Her first years there are said to be disastrous. She received a concussion after falling and being unconscious shortly after her arrival, this would lead to years of debilitating headaches […]
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Gladys May Aylward was a Christian missionary to China. Her story became well known from the book, The Small Woman by Alan Burgess and movie, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, written and made about her in the late 1950s. Gladys Aylward was born on February 24, 1902 in North London, England. She was the daughter of Thomas and […]
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Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh Protestant Christian missionary to China. He was born around 1839 in Llanover, Wales. His father was a non-conformist minister and he would later follow in his footsteps. He married Caroline Godfrey in 1863, and she died of a miscarriage two years later. She is said to have died only “four months after their arrival […]
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