I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
This is the last great festival of the church’s year. The Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost/Spirit is celebrated.
There is a straight forward information sheet. On Google it is possible to get b/w pictures for the children to colour. I have created a ‘How many words can you find in Trinity Sunday’ sheet. When they have found a few words they can create a simple crossword - example of crossword shown. I have included a Word Maker for TrinitySunday if they have a problem finding words.
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bomfree. She was a slave, born in 1797 in Dutch speaking Ulster County, New York.
She was bought and sold 4 times. In her teens (1815) she was united with another slave and they had 5 children.
In 1827, the year before New York’s law freeing slaves was to take effect, she ran away with her infant Sophia. She ran to the nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners. For $20 they bought her freedom.
In 1928 she began to work for a local minister. By the early 1830s she was participating in the religious revivals that were sweeping the state and she became a charismatic speaker and itinerant preacher.
In 1943 she declared the Spirit called on her to preach the truth- renaming herself Sojourner Truth.
Abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, encouraged her to give speeches about the evils of slavery.
She never learned to read or write. In 1950 she dictated her autobiography The narrative of Sojourner Truth to Oliver Gilbert, who also helped publish the book. The book brought her national recognition and she survived on the sales of the book.
She met women’s rights activists,including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, plus temperance advocates, and quickly championed both causes.
In 1851 she delivered her famous Ain’t I a Woman speech at the women’s conference on Akron, Ohio. She challenged the prevailing notions of racial and gender inferiority and inequality by reminding her listeners of her combined strength - she was nearly 6 feet tall and had female status. ( See Speech)
She eventually split from Douglass because he believed enslaved men should should come before women’s suffrage. She believed they should occur simultaneously.
In the 1950s she moved to Battle Creek where 3 of her daughters lived. She continued to speak nationally and to help slaves escape to freedom.
During the Civil War she encouraged young men to join the Union cause and organized supplies for black troops.
After the war, in 1864, she was invited to the White House by President Abraham Lincoln and became involved with the Freedmen’s Bureau - helping freed slaves find work and build new lives.
In the mid 1860s a street conductor violently tried to block her from riding. In court she won her case.
In the late 1860’s she collected 1000s of signatures on a petition to provide former slave with land - Congress never took action.
In her final years she became nearly blind and deaf. She spent her final years in Michigan and died in 1883.
Sources
National Women’s History Museum
Ain’t I a Woman transcript
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an abolitionist, civil rights activist, feminist and advocate of Social justice. He travelled to Britain in 1845 for 19 months, lecturing against slavery in the USA.
Frederick was born on a plantation in Talbot County. He was born a slave. His birth name was Frederick Bailey. he did not know who was his father or the exact date of his birth. He later picked 14th February as his birthday and estimated he was born in 1818.
Aged 7 he was sent to live at the Wye House plantation. His mother died when he was 10. Eventually he went to Baltimore to serve the Auld family.
Sophia Auld started to teach him how to read. It was against the law and her husband her from teaching him. Frederick was an intelligent young man and taught himself how to read and write by observing others and watching white children.
He read in newspapers about slavery, He taught others to read which got him into trouble and he was moved to another farm where he was beaten by the slave owner to break his spirit.
In 1838 he escaped. He disguised himself as a sailor and carried papers to show he was a free black seaman. On 3rd September he boarded a train for the north. 24 hours later he arrived in New York a ‘free’ man. He married Anna Murray and took the surname of Douglas.
They settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. There he met abolitionists - people who wanted to abolish slavery. He became an excellent speaker on the subject and became famous but feared of being captured and returned to slavery.
In 1845 he travelled to Ireland and Britain lecturing against slavery in the USA. He became embroiled in controversies due to his electrifying capacity as an oratory and performer. He returned to the USA a free man, British abolitionists purchased his legal freedom.
He also spoke about Women’s Rights. He attended the first ever women’s rights convention at Seneca falls, New York in 1948.
During the Civil War 1961-6 he fought for the rights of black soldiers. When the Soth announced they would execute or enslave any captured black soldier he insisted that President Lincoln should respond- he responded by threatening to execute like for like. Frederick also sought equal pay and treatment for black soldiers.
He wrote an autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, It became a best seller, He later wrote 2 more books about his life.
Frederick died on 20th February 1895, aged 77 (?) from either a heart attack or stroke. His legacy lives on in his writings and monuments named after him.
NOTE
This is just a simple summary. There are 38 pages on Frederick Douglas on Wikipedia giving far more detail.
Sources used
Wikipedia
Biography for Kids
John David Pawson (1930-2020) was an evangelical minister, writer and prominent Bible teacher based in the U.K.
He was not afraid of tackling the controversial topics. All he wanted people to do was to read the Bible for themselves.
He was born in the northeast in England. His parents were H. Cecil and Jean Pawson.
His father was head of Agriculture at Durham University and Vice President of the Methodist conference.
From childhood he had always wanted to be a farmer but by the time he had completed a B.Sc. in Agriculture at Durham University he felt God was calling him into full-time Christian ministry. He studied for an M.A. in theology at Wesley House, Cambridge. On graduating he joined the Royal Air Force as a chaplain and served in Aden
When he left the RAF he served as a Methodist minister. He found he was uncomfortable with infant baptism. Following a doctrinal meeting of the Methodist church he volunteered to leave the denomination.
Shortly afterwards he became pastor of Gold Hill Baptist church in Buckinghamshire.
Later he moved to Guildford Baptist Church, Millmead, which helped design. Here he established a reputation amongst the evangelicals and charismatics as a Bible preacher. He began to create teaching tapes for the church’s sick and elderly members- these tapes became popular world wide. Under his ministry Millmead became one of the largest Baptist churches in the U.K…
David left Millmead in 1979 and began an itinerant worldwide Bible teaching ministry. His ministry, predominantly through seminars for church leaders, took him to Asia, Australia, Africa, England, Europe and the USA.
MILLIONS of copies of his teachings have been distributed in more than 120 countries. He was a writer and speaker with a reputation for urgency, clarity and uncompromising faithfulness to the Scriptures. he wrote over 80 books.
His extensive and accessible overviews of the books of the Bible have been published and recorded in Unlocking the Bible, available on CDs, DVDs and YouTube.
Steve Dally worked alongside him during his last ten years. In 2013 he was still preaching at events across the globe. David now in his mid 80’s had a mini stroke and was found to have advanced prostate cancer which had spread to the bones but he fortunately was not in significant pain. As his public appearances became fewer he worked on making his teaching accessible online.
David died on Ascension Day, 21st May 2020 aged 90.
David is considered to be one of the world’s finest biblical expositors
*All he wanted was for people to read the Bible for themselves.
Steve Dally
Sources used
Wikipedia this includes summaries of 10 of his books
Christian News
Read Not as bad s the truth -David’s autobiography
Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to move to the back of the bus.
She was an American civil rights activist. She came from Montgomery where her young pastor was Martin Luther King.
She lived to be 92. She was laid in state in the rotunda of the U.S. capital. She was the first woman and only the second Black person to receive the distinction,
Source used
Encyclopedia Britannica
Peter, the Hermit was a Roman Catholic Priest from Amiens.
Pope Urban 11 called for a crusade to liberate the Holy Places (1095)- destination the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.
Peter toured Europe preaching the crusade. He was a key figure during the military expedition from France to Jerusalem, known as the People’s Crusade or Crusade of the Paupers. He was one of the preachers of the armed pilgrimage and leapt to fame as an emotional revivalist. Historians agree that 1000s of serfs and peasants eagerly took the cross at his bid. Some historians think the crusade would have included well-armed soldiers and nobles.
The Crusade to the Holy Land began in the spring of 1096. He received permission from Patriarch Simeon 11 of Jerusalem. He recruited from England, Lorraine, France and Flanders.
The start was disastrously with the massacre of Jewish civilians
( ReadMassacre of Jewish civilians)
They then had to go through Hungary, Belgrade and Sofia. They started in April 1096 with 40,000 men and women from Cologne and arrived in Constantinople with 30,000 by the end of July. (The ‘locals’ were expected to feed the vast host of paupers for the remainders of their journey.)r
( Read Hungary, Belgrade Sofia and Constantinople)
During the winter (1096/7), with little hope of securing Byzantine support, the Crusade waited for the armed crusaders as their sole source of protection in completing the pilgrimage.
The numbers, to a small degree, were replenished with disarmed , injured or bankrupted crusaders. . After a few rousing speeches Peter now played a subordinate role, The Crusade settled on a military campaign to secure the pilgrimage routes and holy sites in Palestine.
When they reached Antioch at the beginning of 1098 he gave a stirring speech before the half-starved Crusaders gained victory over the superior Muslim army besieging the city.
In 1099 he appears as the treasurer of the alms at the siege of Arqa. He was leader of he supplication processions around the walls of Jerusalem before it fell and later, within Jerusalem, after the surprising victory at the Battle of Ascalon (August).
At the end of 1099 he went to Latakia and sailed for the west. From this time he disappears from the historical records except in his obituary in the chronicle at Neufmoustier Abbey. ( read Later Life)
In 1100 he returned to Europe to be the prior at the monastery he had founded in Neufmroutier near Huy.
H e died in 1115 and his tomb is in Neufmoustier Abbey.-*
His name.
He is called Pierre l’Ermite in French. The structure of the name in French unlike in English has led some francophone scholars to treat l’Ermite as a surname rather than a title.
Sources
Wikipedia
The Hodder & Stoughton Book of Famous Christians by Tony Castle
Joseph William Livesey was an English temperance campaigner, social reformer, local politician, writer, publisher, newspaper proprietor and philanthropist.
He engaged energetically in local politics, filled many public posts and was a leader in every kind of philanthropic effort, especially identifying with the teetotal movement.
He published a number of publications
TheMoral Reformer(1833) which became the* Preston Temperance* (1834-8). This became the* British Temperance Advocate.*
Moral Reformer (1838/9) revived.
The Struggle(1841)
Preston Guardian (1844-1859) established with his sons
*Teetotal Progressionist * (1851/2)
Staunch Teetotaller (1867-9)
,Margaret Clitherow , known as ‘the Pearl of York’ , was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
To be ’ pressed to death’ meant having a door being put over the top of the accused and the door loaded with an immense weight of rocks and stones. This was the standard inducement to force a plea.
Margaret converted to Roman Catholicism in 1574.
Her husband paid her fines for not attending the Established church. In 1577 she was imprisoned for not attending church. 2 further incarcerations followed at York Castle. Their son William was born in prison.
The Act of 1584, by the Jesuits, made it a capital offence to harbour and maintain priests. Margaret had 2 chambers-one next to their house and a second in rented house some distance away.
Local tradition holds she also housed some priests in the Black Swan where the Queen’s agents lodged!
These 3 chambers became important hiding place for fugitive Roman Catholic priests in the north of England. There Mass was celebrated through the thick of the persecution.
In 10 th March 1586 the house was searched. A frightened boy revealed the location of the priest hole. She was arrested and called before the York assizes. She refused to plea. She was sentenced to death. She died on 25th March 1586
She was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius X1 and canonised by Pope Paul V1 on 25th October 1970 among the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales…
Saint Margaret’s shrine is as 35/6, The Shambles, in York.
Source
Wikipedia
Sue Barker is a former professional tennis player and television presenter.
During her tennis career she won 15 WTA tour single titles including the 1976 French Open aged 20. She also won 12 doubles titles. She reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 3 on 20th March 1977.
She won her last doubles title in 1982 at Cincinnati and played her last professional match in 1984.
Her mentor throughout her career was Arthur Roberts. He began coaching her in 1966 when she was 10 years of age.
In 2004, recalling her French Open win in 1976,she said,* I’m still incredibly proud of what I achieved.***
She retired from playing tennis to presenting it!
From 1985 until 1990 she became a commentator and sports reporter for Australia’s Channel 7.
She then joined British Sky Broadcasting.
In 1993 she joined the BBC and was a regular guest on* Today at Wimbledon* with Harry Carpenter.
In the 1990’s hosted BBC Wimbledon Highlight show with Pam Shriver.
In 1994 took over as host of* Today at Wimbledon*.
From 2000 until 2022 she anchored the 2 week long broadcast of the Wimbledon tennis championships for the BBC.
Sue had a long broadcasting career. She enjoyed commentating on many sports- from horse racing to the Olympics. - summer and winter.
From 1997 until 2020 she presented* A Question of Sport*- a programme which viewers very much enjoyed watching.
In 2000 received an MBE for services to sport and broadcasting.
In 2016 received OBE for broadcasting and charity.
In 2021 received CBE for broadcasting and charity.
In 1982 met Cliff Richard.
In 1988 married Lance TanKard
Autobiography ‘Calling the Shots’ published in 2022.
Sources
Wikipedia
Passing the Torch - Sportswomen who Inspire
Hugh was the Bishop of Worcester(1535-9) during the Reformation. He became the C of E chaplain to King Edward V1.
In his middle 60s he faced a trial on 14th April 1554… He argued, in writing since he was hardly able to sustain a debate at his age, that the doctrines of the real presence of Christ in the mass, transubstantiation and the propitiatory merit of the mass were unbiblical.
In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary 1 he was tried for his beliefs and teachings. He was burned with Nicholas Ridley at the stake. He became one of the three Oxford Martyrs -Thomas Cramner was the third.
It may come in my days,as old as i am, or in my children’s days, the saints shall be taken up to meet Christ in the air, and so shall come down with him again.
Hugh Latimer
Source
Wikipedia
Sharron is a former English swimmer who represented GB in the Olympics and European championships.
She has attended 12 consecutive Olympics -3 as a competitor and 9 as a commentator. She also competed in the international community spanning 20 years.
She learned to swim when she was 6 years of age.
By the age of 8 she was training seriously.
Aged 11 swam for the British national team.
Aged 13 represented GB at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Aged 14 won 2 bronze medals at the 1977 European Championships.
Aged 15 won 2 gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in the 200 ` and 400 individual medleys.
Aged 17 she won a silver medal at the 1980 games in the 400m individual medley
Aged 18 ‘called time’ to build her television profile and career in modelling.
Aged 27’ returned’ to the pool.
Aged 32, in 1994, finally retired having been British champion 22 times , broken 200 British swimming records and held 5 World Masters records( eligible when over 30)
When she retired she worked for various media organisations and programmes.
(Read* Publications, media programmes and other work*)
Given a MBE in 1993 in recognition for her sevices to swimming.
In 2005 supported London’s bid for the 2112 Olympics. On BBC’s Question Time made a strong case for bringing the Games to London.
She is a patron of the Disabled Sport Rngland and SportsAid.
She has her view on trans women.In 2023 criticised Nike for using Dylan Mulvany, a transgengender woman to model their products.
There is talk that her silver , won in 1980, could still be turned into gold. The gold medallist, Petra Schneider, from East Germany, has admitted that the victory was drug enhanced.
St. Cecilia lived during the 3rd century AD in Rome, Italy. She is one of the most famous Roman martyrs of the early church and historically most discussed.
When she was forced to marry her husband Valerian, a pagan nobleman, she sat apart singing to God - for that she was later declared the saint of musicians. She retained her virginity by telling her husband that an angel of the Lord was watching over her. The husband asked to see the angel. She told him to be baptised by Pope Urban I. After the baptism he saw an angel standing beside her.
She suffered martyrdom along with her husband and his brother Tiburtius, at the hands of prefect Turcius Almachius in the reign of emperor Marcus Aurelius between 176-180 AD. The legend about her death is that she was struck on the neck by a sword three times and lived for three days. She asked the pope to turn her home into a church. She was later beheaded.
Her body when moved in 1599 from the Catacomb of Callixtus to the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere was found to be still incurrupt, seemingly to be a sleep.
Over the years a lot of music has been dedicated to her name by many famous composers - see list enclosed.
*A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day * by John Dryden included
My source for information was Wikipedia - a very well thought out source.
Point of information Cecilia can also be spelt Cecity
Lester Frank Sumrall was an American Pentecostal pastor and evangelist. He founded the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association ( Le SEA) and its Humanitarian arm LeSEA Global Feed the Hungry, World Harvest Radio international and World Bible College.
His mother, Betty, prayed while he was still her womb, that he would be a preacher. Lester was born in New Orleans on 15th February.
Aged 17 he was on his death bed suffering from tuberculosis when he received a vision. Suspended in midair to his right was a casket, to his left an open Bible. He heard a voice ask, Lester Sumrall, which of these will you choose tonight? He chose to preach the Gospel as long as he lived. When he woke up in the morning he was completely healed
Following his recovery, aged 17, he began to preach. Aged 19 he found a church in Green forest, Arkansas he found a church and was ordained by the assemblies of God. He became a ‘brush arbor’ preacher on the backwoods of Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas.
On 18th December, 1831 he had his second vision.At the same time In England Howard Carter was praying for a companion. Lester was to be his companion.
In 1934 he began travelling abroad. He preached in Tahiti, New Zealand and Brisbane Australia where he established a church.
He travelled with Howard throughout eastern Asia, Europe and South America. Together they forged new territory in the area of spiritual warfare as they cast out devils, won new converts and established churches and instructed people of God.
In South America he heard about a pretty, young missionary, from Argentina. He met and married Louise Layman on 30th September 1944. They took the ‘unconventional’ route to honeymooning. They began a 50,000 mile missionary tour and life together that spanned 49 years. They had 3 children.
In 1957 he founded the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association (LeSEA). Which gave birth to over 100 books and study guides, a quarterly magazine,.
In 1963 Lester moved to South Bend Indiana, to pastor Christian Central Cathedral of Praise ( now Christian Centre Church). He also withdrew from the Assemblies of God denomination.
In 1968 he began what would become World harvest Radio International. Between 1972-97 he acquired 11 television stations, a satellite ministry, 3 radio and 5 shortwave stations.
Lester founded the World Harvest Bible College (now Indiana Christian University) and* World Harvest Magazine*
In 1987 he founded the LeSEA Global Feed the Hungry, a humanitarian aid organization, to help desperately poor families.
In 2018 LeSEA changed its name to Family Broadcasting Corporation (FBC
Lester died on 28th April 1996 aged 83.
He was one of the most colourful preachers of the 20th century. He began as a fiery young preacher during the depression. He left a legacy of what simple and determined faith in God can accomplish.
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*This is just the beginning. There are greater blessings ahead!
Sources used
family Broadcasting Corporation
WHBC
Wikipedia
Hugh Latimer and Hicholas Ridley were burnt at the stake in Oxford on 16th October 1555 during the reign of Queen Mary ( 1553-8).
In 1534 the Act of Supremacy was passed in England. It made Henry V111 head of the English Church instead of the Roman Catholic Pope in Rome. It was the beginning of the English Reformation. There was a rapid advance towards Protestantism after the accession of King Edward V1
Henry V111 was followed by Edward V1 1547-53,and Lady Jane Grey 1553 both protestants.
Mary (1553-1558) was Roman Catholic and wanted the church in England to return to Roman Catholicism. Those in high places who opposed her were arrested for treason and some were martyred for heresy - refusing to subscribe to certain articles of faith such as the existence of purgatory an the need to venerate saints.
Hugh Latimer had become the bishop of Worcester in 1535. Forced to resign his see in 1539. He popularized the idea of the reformation
Nicholas Ridley was appointed bishop of Rochester. In 1550 he became bishop of London. he denied the doctrine of transubstantiation - that Christ’s natural body is present in the bread of the Eucharist after consecration.blood.
The trial happened at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin. They were imprisoned at the former Bocardo Prison.
They were burnt at the stake just outside the city walls to the north, where Broad Street is now located.
Latimer , at the stake is said to have immortalized himself by exhorting his fellow victim Ridley with these words - we shall this day light a candle, by God’s grace, in England as I trust shall never be put out
If you visit Oxford a cross on Oxford’s Broad Street marks the site of the execution.
Thomas Cramner - see more information available under his name.
Act of Supremacy - see more information under Henry V111 and Act of Supremacy
Sources used
Britannica Online Encyclopedia
History Today
Wikipedeia
Margaret Emma Barber was born in Peasenhall, Suffolk. The family moved to Norwich in 1879. The family home was opposite St.Martins parish church which was intensely evangelical in the 1880-90s. must have had an influence on the Barber Family.
During the course of her life she lived twice in China. On her first visit as a missionary she went as an Anglican. On her second visit she went as an independent missionary with informal ties to the Plymouth Brethren.
She was an Anglican missionary sent out by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) to the city of Fuzhou, Fujian. There she taught in a the Tau Su Girls’ High School- founded by the Church of England for 7 years. She was regarded as an excellent missionary but her co-missionaries became jealous. They fabricated a serious charge against her and she was sent home to Great Britain. She was known for her faith and decided not to vindicate herself.
Years later the chairman of CMS board became aware of the case. He persuaded her to tell the truth. She told him the whole story and was fully vindicated.
While in England she came in contact with D.M. Panton, editor of the Christian magazine The Dawn. 1907 Margaret became a member of Surrey Chapel and was baptized by full Immersion.
Margaret resigned from CMS. In 1909 with Miss Ballard, a Surrey Chapel member she returned to China, settling in Fuzhou. They rented a house in Pagoda . She stayed there until her death in 1930 of Crohn’s disease.
She lived by faith. According to Chinese customs all bills had to be paid in full by the end of the year. With only 2 days remaining she found herself $120s short.
On the last day of the year D.M. Panton, in London, through the British bank in Foochow, sent exactly $120s!
Margaret lived with little travelling and no publicity. She was content to remain at home and pray. She helped those who sought her counsel. She, with others, regularly taught a Bible class at ‘white teeth rock’. There she had contact with
Watchmen Nee while he was studying at Anglican Trinity College.
Through their relationship Watchman Nee was greatly edified and perfected. If he had a problem or needed spiritual instruction he would go to her. She treated him as a young learner and frequently administered strict discipline.
At that time over 60 young brothers and sisters received help but after awhile most stopped going to see her except Watchmen Nee.
When Margaret died she left all her belongings - an old Bible and her notes - to Watchmen Nee. In the March 1930 issue of his periodical The Present Testimony he wrote
She was one who was very deep in the Lord, and in my opinion, the kind of fellowship she had with the Lord and the kind of faithfulness she expressed to the Lord are rarely found on this earth.
In 1972 Watchmen Lee was martyred for his faith.
Sources used
Living Stream Ministry
Christian web sites
Contending for the Faith
American Society of Church History 1955
wikipedia
Clock Cricket is played by a group of 8 children. Only one wicket is used with a stump at the bowler’s end. The children are set up in a ‘circle’ - the ‘circle’ can either go clockwise or anti-clockwise. There are always two children batting - when one is OUT they change ends. They are only in for 6+ balls . Once the 6+ alls have been bowled it is one move to the right. This keeps everyone interested and busy. To make it more interesting an individual score sheet could be created.
Everyone is kept busy. A class can be divided into maybe 4/5 groups and each group have their own game.
James Hudson Taylor was the founder of the interdenominational China Inland Mission.
He dreamed as a child of going to China as a missionary. He fulfilled his dream but he had to set up his own mission to make it successful. He was frustrated the first time he went out because he had little support from the mission which sent him out.
He did such a good job setting up his own mission for China that other faith missions followed his methods. His chief emphases were to identify with the local people by dressing 'native', direction to come from the mission field not home, efficient administration and wanting a deepening of Christian life in the home churches to encourage more to go into the mission field.
He was happily married twice and both his wives Maria and Jane supported him in his endeavours to evangelise China. He spent 50 years as a missionary and went 11 times to China.
Through a lifetime of ministry he fulfilled his calling.
Caroline Chisholm is a woman spent a great deal of her time trying to help others get on in life -especially other women. With her husband Archibald she spent time in both India and Australia. In India where she opened a school. In Australia she wanted to help emigrants settle successfully there- she set up the Female Immigration Home and also helped set up a safe route for the gold pioneers to follow.
She also helped migrants wanting to go to Australia from the UK.
It has been suggested that Charles Dickens, in his book Hard Times, wrote his character Mrs. Jellyby as a criticism of female activists like Caroline Chisholm.
John Newton loved to go to sea.
He had a very eventful early life. He went to sea with his father aged only 11. Aged 18 he was press ganged by the Royal Navy.
He became the ‘slave’ of Princess Peye. He eventually became a captain of three slave ships.
Whilst a slave trader, on 10th March, 1745, following a very sever storm where his boat nearly sank ,he had a spiritual conversion.He started to read his Bible.
He left the slave trade behind in 1755 and became the tide surveyor (tax collector) for the Port of Liverpool. He began to study to become a clergyman. Persistence paid off and eventually in 1764 to become a deacon.
William Cowper, the poet, attended his church and together they wrote many hymns - Amazing Grace was one of them.
He encouraged the young William Wilberforce to stay in politics.
He waited 34 years before he wrote a pamphlet ‘Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade’. He sent a copy to every MP
He died in 1807 knowing the British Passage of the Slave Trade act had been passed by parliament.
I have included a copy of Amazing Grace, a list of the books he wrote and a word search (answers provided) .
The slave trader who became the slave abolitionist and hymn writer. He was also the author of many Christian books.
A short information sheet about St. Elizabeth of Hungary. St.Elizabeth lived in the thirteenth century. She was of noble birth but wanted to help the poor. Her husband, king Ludwig, only cared about himself. She set up two hospitals and was willing to work with lepers. There is a fact sheet and a gap sheet. She is he patron saint of bakers.