Lillian Hunt Trasher (1887-1961) was a Christian missionary in Asyut, Egypt, as well as founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is known as the ‘Nile Mother’ of Egypt.
Lillian was born in Jacksonville, Florida. she was raised as a Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia.
As a teenager she attended Bible college for one term. Having failed to get a job as a reporter she worked in the Faith Orphanage in North Carolina (1908-10). She became engaged to Tom Jordan. a minister.
She heard a missionary talk about India and decided she wanted to work in Africa. Tom failed to share her call so she cancelled the wedding! She then taught at a Bible school in South Carolina, pastored a Pentecostal church, travelled with an evangelist and then returned to the orphanage.
In 1910 after meeting Pastor §Breisford of Assiout, from Egypt, at a missionary conference she decided, against her family wishes, to go there.
*Now go, for I am sending you back to Egypt * Acts ch 7 v 34 was her inspiration.
Liliian with her sister Jennies sailed to Egypt with less than 100 $ in their pockets
When they arrived in Assiout she soon met a man seeking help for a dying woman. She went with Sela, an older woman, to help. They found a baby, the child’s dying mother and the grandmother. The mother died. Through a Translator Lillian learned the grandmother was going to toss the baby into THe NIle.
Lillian defied the mission organisation and began an orphanage with the baby she named Fareida. By 1918 the orphanage family had grown to 50 children and 8 widows.
In 1919 she returned briefly to the USA to raise money and prayer support from the Assemblies of God.
She worked for 50 years (1911-61), without furlough, among Egypt’s orphans and other forgotten people, including the Nazi occupation during WWII.
Lillian died on 17th December 1961. By this time the Lillian Trasher Orphanage had grown to 1,200 children. ‘Mama’ Lillian lies buried in her orphanage’s cemetery.
The orphanage she founded still helps people to this day. Since its establishment 20,000 children have been cared for. It is current home for 400 orphans, 40 widows and 50 staff members.with their families.**
They all belong to one big loving family
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