From Farm Girl to Missionary
From Farm Girl to Missionary

Author: Jean M. Anderson

Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1479610402

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Go back in time to the early 1900s when the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was still in its youth and walk with Mary Haskell as she trudges from house to house selling Adventist books. Sympathize with her as her mother torments her and her sister, Susan, as they remain true to God and the Adventist faith, even after the rest of the family falls away. Rejoice as some of those who buy her books also give their lives over to Jesus. Share Mary’s happiness as she falls in love with Clarence Rentfro, marries, and shares his dream of being missionaries in Spain. Feel the bittersweet emotions as she says goodbye to sister Susan and her young husband, Edwin Wilbur, as they leave to be among the first missionaries to China. You’ll also feel Mary’s and Clarence’s shock when the call finally comes for them to go to the mission field—and it’s not Spain! You will learn the lesson that the Rentfros learned that God sometimes sends us to places, not of our choosing. But He always goes with us and blesses our efforts to do His work. Mary and Clarence clung to God through privation and plenty, sorrow and joy, as they faithfully did the work placed before them. It is good for us to know what our pioneers did and how the Seventh-day Adventist Church has grown through the years. We can find inspiration, in their faith and efforts to build up the kingdom of God on this earth, to continue the good work until Jesus comes again.

An Ordinary Farm Girl Meets an Extra-Ordinary God
An Ordinary Farm Girl Meets an Extra-Ordinary God

Author: Pearl Tadema

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1602665761

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Tadema invites readers to look over her shoulder and observe how she discovered that the heart of her own navigation of life was an essential union of the Holy Spirit with her spirit. (Motivation)

Begin by Loving Again
Begin by Loving Again

Author: Dorcas L Stoltzfus Morrow M D

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781515396963

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With a sharp eye for detail and an abundance of humility, courage, faith, hope, and love, Dorcas Leah Stoltzfus Morrow tells the story of her surprising life, from her birth on a farm in eastern Lancaster County in September 1931, the first of five siblings, to her return to Lancaster County as a resident of Landis Homes Retirement Community. Here you will meet her family of origin, and the family she accepted and nurtured through a marriage begun at midlife. You will see in these pages the world of her childhood and youth, her determination to become a doctor despite obstacles, her adventures as a missionary doctor in East Africa, and her perseverance in living all of her life to the glory of God. "I vividly remember one beautiful fall evening when I had finished unloading the corn from the wagon. Mike and Roy and I had started home. As we passed the farmhouse and the orchard's few remaining apple trees, I looked westward beyond the meadow hill and toward Gap, and saw a gorgeous red-orange sunset unfold before my eyes. It was just awesome! And I can still remember that I asked God to let the end of my life be as beautiful as that sunset. Looking back seventy years later, I can see clouds of disappointment and depression in my life, plus attempts to serve God by my own effort. But I can still see that sunset as an ideal of what God wants to do in me and through me" (p. 54).

American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking

Author: Hualing Hu

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2000-10

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780809323869

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The Japanese army's brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as the rape of Nanking. As they slaughtered an estimated 300,000 people, the invading soldiers raped more than 20,000 women - some estimates run as high as 80,000. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected the lives of 10,000 Chinese women and children - at the eventual cost of her own - and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.