I first read about Betty Stam while reading a book by Elisabeth Elliot. She included a prayer that Betty had prayed early in life. This is that prayer: Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes All my own desires and hopes And accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all Utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me…
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The Cambridge Seven
The Cambridge Seven were seven students from Cambridge University, who in 1885, gave up all wealth and privilege to become missionaries in China; the seven were: Charles Thomas Studd, Montagu Harry Proctor Beauchamp, Stanley P. Smith, Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, Dixon Edward Hoste, Cecil H. Polhill-Turner and William Wharton Cassels. Having been accepted as missionaries by Hudson Taylor of the China Inland Mission the seven were scheduled to leave for China…
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Inaugural Post
“Courage is not a virtue; but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” â C.S. Lewis Welcome to our website celebrating those who have lived a life of valor with the hopes that it will encourage us to do the same. We hope to investigate the things that make heroes, heroic and the men and women who have shown us that it is possible to trust in God…