But was it that different? Irene Howat has researched the lives of these famous women of God and draws out lessons we can all relate to, especially youngsters today.
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Ida Scudder (Missionary in India), Betty Green (Co-founder of MAF), Jeanette Li (Evangelist and Bible teacher in Communist China),
- Mary Jane Kinnaird (Founder of the YWCA),
- Bessie Adams (Co-founder of CLC),
- Emma Dryer (Co-founder of Moody College),
- Lottie Moon (Missionary in China), Florence Nightingale (Pioneer in Health Care),
- Heanrietta Mears (Pioneer in Children's Ministry), and
- Elisabeth Elliot (Missionary to the Aucas).
Find out how Mary Jane Kinnaird prayed and helped young women; Emma Dryer studied astronomy and became a Bible teacher; Florence Nightingale became a nurse and was useful to God; Lottie Moon thought Missionaries were silly and then became one herself; Ida Scudder changed her mind and then changed India; Henrietta Mears dreamed big and wrote books; Bessie Adams became a missionary in a horse-drawn caravan; Betty Green flew planes in World War II; Elisabeth Elliot's husband was killed but she forgave his murderers and Janette Li became a Christian and told her own Chinese people about the one true God.