Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. I had asked,

you all, my listeners, for some ideas and many of you sent in, how about an episode on Amy Carmichael?

Well, here it is. An episode on Amy Carmichael. She was born in 1867 and she died in 1951.

She was born in Northern Ireland, but her ancestors were Scottish. On her father's side,

the Carmichael's, of the Carmichael clan, they were covenenters. Amy was the oldest of seven,

and Amy was the leader of the pack, and she was known for being rather adventurous at the age of 15.

She was converted, and a few years later she was visiting friends in Glasgow

and attended some meetings of the Kessik convention, or the Kessik movement,

and so she was affiliated with the Kessik movement through the rest of her life.

By now, she was living in Belfast, and she began a mission work for the factory workers,

the female factory workers in that city. They were called shawlies because of the shawls they wore.

She opened another mission in the city of Manchester, and then in 1892, she heard these words go.

And, of course, this is from Go Yee, quoting the King James version of the Great Commission in Matthew chapter 28.

And so she heard the words go, and she said she would say yes.

She immediately sent a note to her mom, and informed her of her plans, and her mom wrote back to her,

that he has lent you to me all these years. So now that God is calling you, I can't say no, she says.

She ends the letter with, he is yours, and you are his. I can trust you to him, and I do.

Well, that was 1892 and 1893. She was sailing the Pacific Ocean for Japan via China.

She did about a year's work there in Japan, and then she moved on to India.

She arrived in the final week of 1895, and this would be her home all the way until her death in 1951.

Over the 55 years in India, here's what she did.

She started with work among young girls, much like she did back in Ireland.

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