Missionary Stories with the Millers (Miller Family (Harvest House)) [Paperback]

Mildred A. Martin (Author), Edith Burkholder (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Miller Family (Harvest House)

Experience thrilling adventure as the Christian missionaries on these pages meet witch doctors, disease, drought, hate-filled guerillas, a Bible thief, and killer cats. Each story is based on actual happenings from the lives of real people.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 205 pages
• Publisher: Green Pastures Press (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962764345
• ISBN-13: 978-0962764349
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best missionary book you'll ever buy, August 18, 2002

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This review is from: Missionary stories with the Millers (Miller family series) (Hardcover)

This book was recommended to us by the "Moore Foundation" and it is about the best book we have ever purchased. In fact we have bought the rest of the series which include Wisdom and the Millers and Prudence and the Millers among others. We read this to the Junior class and occasionally for Primary class for the mission story and this book is a hugh hit. Infact, whenever we read this book, folks are always wanting to know the name of the book and where they can purchase it. Now, most of the Junior class owns their own Missionary and the Millers book and I am here cruising Amazon for what I hope to be a similarly good mission book...that will be a very hard task as this one is so exceptional. If you want a really good missionary stories book, you've just found it!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction to Missionary Biography, July 30, 2009

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S. Cox "lovemy7" (VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missionary Stories with the Millers (Miller Family (Harvest House)) (Paperback)

We were given this book as a part of Sonlight's curriculum and I have read stories to the children nightly from it. They are moving stories about adversity or danger faced with great faith by God's servants in mission work. I have skipped one story (about a the murder of a father) because I felt it was too much for my children...but the rest of the stories have been excellent. Someone above referred to them as horror stories. It's an unfortunate fact that much of human activity up to this day has been horrific. And, in fact, the Heroes books contain very similar stories (Boxer rebellion, etc.). I remember vividly as a child being deeply affected by Corrie Ten Boom's story, The Hiding Place; I never forgot it. "There is no pit so deep, God's love is not deeper still." I remember her father's parable about the train ticket to this day. God gives us grace in our hour of need to face whatever we must. I think it is good for our children to be aware not only of man's inhumanity to man (for they will have to face it), but especially of God's response to it--the Cross--and thus our own, carrying His message of mercy and forgiveness to humanity. These stories are just exciting enough to rivet the children's attention, but the "mature" aspects (e.g., a reference to temple prostitution in the Amy Carmichael story) are muted a bit for the ears of children. It's a good way to pique their interest in reading more extensive missionary biographies.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books we own., October 20, 2007

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C. Hernasy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missionary Stories with the Millers (Miller Family (Harvest House)) (Paperback)

The stories in the book are fascinating and well written. Every time I read one of the stories to my six and eight year old boys, I am on the verge of tears because of the beauty and power of God that comes through loud and clear.
My children love this book more than any other in our studies. Sometimes just reading the Bible goes over their heads - the concepts of the Bible are simple, but it is not written so a child can fully understand without adult explanation. The missionary stories are perfect. They are riveting and glorify the Lord. If these stories are "horror" stories, than so is the Bible filled with such. Just leave out a sentence here and there depending on the age of your children. One of the best books we own.