Gladys aylward biography
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Gladys Aylward: My Missionary Life in China
Product Description
A solitary woman. A foreign country. An unknown language. An impossible dream? No!
With no mission board to support or guide her, and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the meddelande of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God triumphed over impossible situations, and drew people to Himself. In Gladys Aylward: My Missionary Life in China, Gladys tells her story—a remarkable tale of one woman's determination to serve God at any cost.
A true story of a determined missionär, Gladys Aylward: My Missionary Life in China will challenge you to modig and expectant faith.
About the Authors
GLADYS AYLWARD() served as a missionär to China for many years. She partnered with an older missionary to run an in•
Gladys Aylward
Missionary in China (–)
Gladys May Aylward (24 February – 3 January ) was a British-born evangelical Christianmissionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in The book served as the basis for the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and filmed entirely in North Wales and England.[1]
Early life
[edit]Aylward was born in , one of three children of Thomas John Aylward (a postman) and Rosina Florence, a working-class family from Edmonton, North London.[2] From her early teens, Gladys worked as a housemaid. Following a calling to go overseas as a Christian missionary, she was accepted by the China Inland Mission to study in a preparatory three-month course for aspiring missionaries. Because of her lack of progress in learning the Chinese language, she was not offered further tra
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The True Story of Gladys Aylward, Missionary to China
Laura Wickham | Sept. 14,
The following text is the full biography featured in the back of the new children’s book about Glady Aylward’s inspiring life by Laura Wickham. This beautifully illustrated book can be read to young children aged and read by children aged 6 or older.
Gladys Aylward was the daughter of Rosina and Thomas Aylward. They lived in north London, where they led a simple but happy life. While Gladys was attending church in her twenties, she felt called to serve God in China.
Determined to follow her dream, Gladys enrolled at missionary school. Sadly, she didn’t pass her theology exam and was told that she couldn’t go to China after all.
But Gladys knew in her heart that she had to go. When she heard that Jeannie Lawson, an elderly missionary in China, needed a young woman to help her, Gladys offered to go. Jeannie agreed, provided that Gladys would pay f