{"id":1951,"date":"2011-11-04T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2011-11-18T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T18:58:56","slug":"amy-carmichael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/amy-carmichael\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fellowship of His Sufferings: The Testimony of Amy Carmichael"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Few would have expected David and Catherine Carmichael\u2019s eldest daughter, Amy, to grow up to become one of the world\u2019s most famous missionaries.<\/p>\n

Born in 1867 in the small village of Millisle, Northern Ireland, there was nothing particularly unusual about this girl, who was known for her wilfulness, tomboyish attitude and a propensity to get into mischievous pranks.<\/p>\n

Little did the Carmichael parents realize that their daughter would be God\u2019s tool for rescuing hundreds of children from a life worse than death in the darkness of the Indian jungles.<\/p>\n

Though Amy\u2019s father died when she was five, the gap had been amply filled by the widower Robert Wilson. Cofounder of the Keswick Convention, Wilson was a catalyst for the holiness movement in England and a support for many missionaries around the globe. When she was in her young twenties, Wilson asked to be allowed to adopt Amy, for whom he felt a special fondness after the loss of his only daughter. Thus it was that Amy moved in with Mr. Wilson and his sons to work as his secretary. The job put Amy in direct contact with many of the missionaries around the world, including Hudson Taylor, Theodore Monod and F.B. Meyer. This was no doubt instrumental in pressing upon Amy the call to mission work.<\/p>\n

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Few would have expected David and Catherine Carmichael\u2019s eldest daughter, Amy, to grow up to become one of the world\u2019s most famous missionaries. Born in 1867 in the small village of Millisle, Northern Ireland, there was nothing particularly unusual about this girl, who was known for her wilfulness, tomboyish attitude and a propensity to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-carmichael"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t