🇨🇳The mission board director told young Gladys Aylward in 1932 when she applied for a missionary appointment to China, “The Chinese language would be far too difficult for you to learn. Your qualifications are too slight, your education limited!”
🇨🇳Convinced God had called her, Gladys determined that if the mission board wouldn't send her, she would send herself.
Using money she earned as a parlor maid, she paid her own fare to travel overland by rail to China.
Without support, money was scarce as Gladys began her work.
🇨🇳But when the Central Government decreed that the binding of women's feet must cease, the mandarin (governor) of the province needed a foot inspector.
🇨🇳Foot binding began in the Sung dynasty (CE 960–1280) in China. Young girls' feet were tightly bound with bandages, resulting in marked foreshortening of the feet. Although foot binding was first practiced by the elite, it had spread among all social classes by the time of the late Qing dynasty.
"You are the only woman in the province with big feet," he told Gladys. "You must take the job!"
Gladys traveled from one remote village to another.
🇨🇳During the day she inspected feet, but at night, at first in halting Chinese, she told the people about her the Lord Jesus.
The woman who was told she could not learn the Chinese language ended up mastering six Chinese dialects!
HalleluYAH!!!
🇨🇳→ What difficult task are you called to do?
Like Gladys Aylward, God may be asking you to learn a skill that seems beyond your ability or do something out of the ordinary that you feel unequipped to do.
The One who made heaven and earth is your Helper.
With Him, you will accomplish the impossible.
“Our help is in the name of of the Lord the maker of heaven and earth.” -Psalms 124:8
IN THE SECRET PLACE - THE HOLINESS CHANNEL
🇨🇳The mission board director told young Gladys Aylward in 1932 when she applied for a missionary appointment to China,
“The Chinese language would be far too difficult for you to learn. Your qualifications are too slight, your education limited!”
🇨🇳Convinced God had called her, Gladys determined that if the mission board wouldn't send her, she would send herself.
Using money she earned as a parlor maid, she paid her own fare to travel overland by rail to China.
Without support, money was scarce as Gladys began her work.
🇨🇳But when the Central Government decreed that the binding of women's feet must cease, the mandarin (governor) of the province needed a foot inspector.
🇨🇳Foot binding began in the Sung dynasty (CE 960–1280) in China. Young girls' feet were tightly bound with bandages, resulting in marked foreshortening of the feet. Although foot binding was first practiced by the elite, it had spread among all social classes by the time of the late Qing dynasty.
"You are the only woman in the province with big feet," he told Gladys. "You must take the job!"
Gladys traveled from one remote village to another.
🇨🇳During the day she inspected feet, but at night, at first in halting Chinese, she told the people about her the Lord Jesus.
The woman who was told she could not learn the Chinese language ended up mastering six Chinese dialects!
HalleluYAH!!!
🇨🇳→ What difficult task are you called to do?
Like Gladys Aylward, God may be asking you to learn a skill that seems beyond your ability or do something out of the ordinary that you feel unequipped to do.
The One who made heaven and earth is your Helper.
With Him, you will accomplish the impossible.
“Our help is in the name of of the Lord the maker of heaven and earth.” -Psalms 124:8
🇨🇳Gladys Aylward.
Missionary to China
1902-1970.
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