Gladys Aylward was a young English parlormaid determined to serve as a missionary in China. She overcame many obstacles to get there, and became a strong witness of Jesus, even converting the Mandarin of the province. When war broke out, she continued to serve as a missionary and at one point rescued 100 children by leading them on foot across a mountain range to safe refuge.
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Darlene Deibler Rose was a missionary to New Guinea when WW II broke out. She spent the war in a Japanese prison camp. Her trials and her eventual return home to the United States were told in her book Evidence Not Seen. Darlene’s faith sustained her through time on death row and through the loss of her husband and everything else she possessed.
Corrie Ten Boom was a watchmaker in the Netherlands when Nazi Germany invaded. Her family sheltered Jews and members of the Dutch underground in a ”hiding place” in their home. Eventually the operation was discovered and the family sent to concentration camps. Upon her release Corrie became a “Tramp for the Lord”, preaching a message of faith and forgiveness around the world.
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