Here are some great Christians you might want to consider studying and illustrating...
Gladys Aylward - Missionary to China in the early 1900s. Her story has been fictionalized into the movie, "Inn of the Sixth Happiness." When she couldn't get backing from any missionary society, she worked as a maid until she saved enough money to make the trip by herself. Her story is one of adventure, heroism, and danger. She was able to help the government put an end to the practice of binding the feet of baby girls.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A German pastor who stood against Hitler, and was eventually executed for it.
John Bunyan - Reformation-era preacher who wrote Pilgrim's Progress. He spent a good deal of time in prison for his faith.
David Brainerd - One of the first missionaries to the American Indians in the early 1700s. He died of tuberculosis at the age of only 29, yet people are still inspired by his diary.
William Carey - An influential missionary to India around 1800.
Amy Carmichael - A missionary who ran children's homes in India for 55 years during the first half of the 1900s.
For a longer list with links to short biographies, please visit this link.
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