Amy carmichael biography elisabeth elliot
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
I remember at one point, i was thinking why would someone write about such uninteresting facts like a sickening journey or of common days (after days after days), but realized in the end, it is this together with patience and motivation that builds up character. Nonetheless I still find it unexplainable how this very common woman nearly 100 years ago, could build up and lead till her later 80s and despite all the sickness, a community such as the DF... And to think she also had a low self-esteem, almost never allowed to be photographed and was in poor health from her youth.
love the attitude:All this was part of going forth unto a land I knew not, and everything was just right, and if things went wrong it was so much the more fun (pg.68)
the night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.
interesting to think about: Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.pg.55
If I by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.pg 183 ->she first heard when she got to Asia, that missionaries don't really get along with each others, so she tried to prove this wrong when it came to her by doi
Book Review: A Chance to Die | Four Truths Amy Carmichael Taught Me
I was eleven years old the first time I read Elisabeth Elliot’s A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael. I’d recently decided I wanted to work in missions and was consuming every missionary biography I could get my hands on. I hesitated before opening A Chance to Die, knowing that this would be no small undertaking. Little did I know that this book would inspire and challenge me like few others.
A Chance to Die tells the story of Amy Carmichael’s life and ministry. Elliot writes about experiences she and Amy Carmichael shared in their missionary journeys. Because of Elliot’s first-hand experience as a missionary, in subtle ways, we can see how Elliot disciples her readers by teaching them about real, honest, and messy missions.
Nothing Too Precious for Jesus
During her time in India, Amy ministered to people who would lose everything for the sake of Christ. Torture, isolation, loss of family, arranged marriage, and death were some of the costs her converts faced. Despite these costs, Amy knew that even if the worst happened, it would be a privilege to suffer for His name.
She was a fervent evangelist, not a hypocritical one. After all, she paid a high cost herself for following Jesus “‘Who can forget,’ wrote a clergyman, ‘Miss Amy Wilson-Carmichael’s farewell address, ere she left for her life of sacrifice in India, as she unrolled a ‘ribband of blue’ with the golden words, ‘Nothing too precious for Jesus?’” (110) Amy knew that every area of her life was worth giving to the Lord. Even through times of deep suffering, nothing was too precious to give to Jesus.
Missionary Life is not Romantic
Though mission work was then and can still be today overly romanticized or glamorized, Amy was determined to present mission work as it really is. She wrote a book called Things as They Are in which she detailed stories of her daily life. Many of these stories were
After 11 hours of travel down the east coast of India, I finally arrived.
In reality, I began this journey 24 years ago when I first read A Chance to Die, Amy Carmichael’s biography written by another missionary, Elisabeth Elliot. That book about Carmichael’s life, ministry, and most of all, devotion to God—her “Unseen Leader”—helped set my life’s course. It portrays a life seeking to trust and obey the Lord through every twist and turn.
Carmichael, born in Ireland in 1867, had a “propensity for upsetting things,” usually when she felt her way was the right way and even if it wasn’t the usual way. Saturated in godly influence, beginning with her Presbyterian family, Carmichael’s young life was shaped by the Keswick movement and Hudson Taylor’s China Inland Mission. At age 25, she set sail for the East, giving her life to sharing Jesus in Japan, China, Ceylon, and finally India, where she spent the final 55 years of her life.
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Elisabeth Elliot
Revell. 384 pp.
A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as “Amma,” or “mother,” as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children.
Amy’s life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master.
Bringing Amma to life through inspiring photos and compelling biographical narrative, Elisabeth Elliot urges readers to examine the depths of their own commitment to Christ.
Revell. 384 pp.
Dohnavur Fellowship
During her first five years in South India, Carmichael diligently worked to learn the local language (Tamil), connect with local women, and use every opportunity to share the Bible. She also lear As an old woman I find myself often in a quiet reverie, pondering the countless blessings of my long life, and marveling at the way the Lord God has led me. I think very often of my lovely mother, who sang to us—“Jesus, tender Shepherd hear me,” and “I went to visit a friend one day—,” and of my earnest father, who taught us the great hymns of the faith such as “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” and “It Is Well With My Soul.” We six Howard children were well acquainted with missionaries. My little brother once noted that “suitcases are forever bumping up and down the stairs,” as our parents managed to keep an open home even during the Great Depression. We were often held spellbound at the dinner table, listening to missionary stories. I remember Mr. L.L. Legters telling of his years in Mexico, translating the Bible for illiterate Indians, and Miss Helen Yost, a delightful red head who worked for years alone with American Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. We loved the thrilling and scary stories—Sir Alexander Clark knighted by Queen Elizabeth) told of his being treed by a Cape buffalo, said to be the fiercest animal in Africa. For hours he sat in the tree as the buffalo circled the trunk, looking balefully at his prey, and seeming to say, “Come down!” I’ve forgotten how long the missionary had to cling until the animal sauntered away. When I was fourteen I learned of an Irish missionary named Amy Carmichael whom I never met—a down-to-earth mystic whose beautiful writings captivated my imagination. She had gone first to Japan, where in her room she had two words written on the wall: Yes, Lord. In the prov Amy Carmichael, God’s Missionary (Part 1)