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, many of whom she saved by hiding in a room behind her wardrobe in a little watch shop
- Granny Brand was a missionary in India
- Gladys Aylward was a missionary in China
- Jackie Pullinger was a missionary in Hong Kong
- Amy Carmichael was a missionary in India
- Elisabeth Fry worked among the sick, prisoners and homeless
- Catherine Booth was co-Founder of The Salvation Army
- Isobel Kuhn was a missionary in Asia
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