The women from our history books who knew that without Christ, we can do nothing

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Hope Bonarcher remembers some amazing women whose unshakeable faith demonstrates that when Christ is our foundation, we can move mountains.

Gladys Aylward, born in London in 1902, was moved to tell the people of China the Gospel. Unsuccessful at encouraging wealthier, better educated, men to the mission field, Gladys decided she, herself, would find a way to China. In 1932, she traveled through a war zone, across Russia and Japan into China. Over the years she would advocate against the painful custom of foot binding on little girls and for adequate care for unruly prison inmates, but she is best known for the safe shepherding of 100 orphans, often by foot, over mountains and across the Yellow River, during the Chinese-Japanese war.

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