“Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can dismay. The hope no disappointments tire, the passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a clod: make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.”
Amy Carmichael was born the oldest of seven children on December 16, 1867, in the city of Millisle in Northern Ireland. Amy started Christian classes and prayer groups in Belfast for the "shawlies," poor factory girls who couldn't afford church hats but instead wore their shawls. Over 350 shawlies eventually attended, and Amy had to find a building large enough for their group.
She moved to India and started her "famous" temple girl work. God had given her brown eyes for a reason. No one believed Amy when she talked about the little temple girls being used as prostitutes. So dressed in a sari and with stained skin, Amy passed as a Hindu girl and visited the temples and found many trapped girls. She served thirteen years rescuing runaway temple girls.
She moved to India and started her "famous" temple girl work. God had given her brown eyes for a reason. No one believed Amy when she talked about the little temple girls being used as prostitutes. So dressed in a sari and with stained skin, Amy passed as a Hindu girl and visited the temples and found many trapped girls. She served thirteen years rescuing runaway temple girls.
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