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Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

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This biography challenged me to pray. Lillian was an aggresive servant of the Lord and much of her aggressiveness was on her knees. What she was able to do was remeniscent of the Gladys Aylward story. A marvelous and compelling story.

This series of books is captivating! I enjoy them every bit as much as my children do. Even my nearly 14-year old son cannot put them down! We own about 4 of them now - but my children have requested the entire series. Little-by-little, hopefully we can do that for them!

The books are exciting, moving, and are great faith-builders. The missionaries featured become heroes in the eyes of my children. I cannot recommend this series high enough. Hope you'll give it a try!

I recently did a homeschooling unit on Ancient Egypt with my lower elementary kids. But I really wanted to connect their study, somehow, to present day Egypt. Obviously there is not much connection since Egypt is currently Muslim rather than polytheistic. So I settled on reading this biography to the kids. I thought giving them some information about a Christian missionary would help them bridge that gap.

It definitely did. This book was awesome. My kids loved it, and I think it worked almost better than a devotional. My eight year old just couldn't get over how many thousands of children Lillian helped. She was like a modern day St. Nicholas, or an African George Mueller. When we looked on Amazon for another book on her, we couldn't find one in print. That makes this book even more valuable as her story is one children can relate to very easily. I was worried that they might be scared by some of the things that happened to her, but they came away in awe.

Lastly, it is very difficult to find great stories about missionaries in North Africa/Middle East. You don't want to miss this! Thanks to YWAM for including this amazing testimony from that region.