Would you like to change your world? These ten girls grew up to do just that!
Isobel Kuhn questioned whether God even existed. Mary Slessor grew up in a slum with an alcoholic father. Joni Eareckson broke her neck during a diving accident and Corrie Ten Boom just lived with her family in a little watch shop in Harlaam, Holland.
What is so special about these girls and how did they change their world?
Isobel Kuhn believed in God and then obeyed his call to travel to Asia to tell the Lisu people about God. Mary Slessor, put herself through evening classes and eventually became one of the first white women to venture into the interior of Africa. Joni Eareckson struggled through her treatment and endless hospital visits to become the inspiration to many Christians. Corrie Ten Boom spent most of her life just living in Holland until the Nazis started killing the Jews. Corrie Ten Boom put her life on the line to save the lives of many Jews in the hiding place, a hidden room behind her wardrobe in a little watch shop in Haarlem, Holland. Mary Slessor (Missionary in Africa), Corrie Ten Boom (hid Jews in Nazi Germany), Granny Brand (Missionary in India), Joni Eareckson , Gladys Aylward (Missionary in China), Jackie Pullinger (Missionary in Hong Kong), Amy Carmichael (Missionary in India), Elisabeth Fry (Worked among the sick, prisoners and homeless), Catherine Booth (Co-Founder of The Salvation Army) and Isobel Kuhn (Missionary in Asia)
1. Isobel Kuhn
2. Elizabeth Fry
3. Amy Carmichael
4. Gladys Aylward
5. Mary Slessor
6. Catherine Booth
7. Jackie Pullinger
8. Evelyn Brand
9. Joni Eareckson Tada
10. Corrie Ten Boom
11. Quiz
Age range: | 7+ |
---|---|
Contributors | Irene Howat |
ISBN | 9781857926491 |
Format | Paperback |
First published | January 2011 |
Dimensions | 110mm x 178mm x 12mm |
Weight | 0.11 kg |
Language | English |
Pages | 160 |
Publisher | Christian Focus |
It's a wonderful series. Irene Howat writes with a real warmth and insight. People that you have never met come alive on the page. Christian legends and unsung heroes all become friends you can understand and look up to. In a world where role models of real integrity are few and far between the Lightkeeper's series fills the gap!
Ten stories of women who used their talents for the service of God, sometimes in a rather different way than they imagined at first. A good read, easy for non-natives and older children.