Week 6: Amy Carmichael
Character Traits: Determination, Compassion, Generosity, Selflessness
Amy Carmichael is one of the best-known and respected missionaries of the 20th century! Amy was born in 1867 into a loving yet strict Irish Presbyterian family. At age 13, she accepted Christ as her Savior. Her father passed away when Amy was only eighteen, leading to her family moving to Belfast due to financial struggles. There she began ministering to those living in the slums and saw for the first time the terrible conditions under which many underprivileged women and girls lived. This sparked a desire in Amy’s heart—she wanted to bring these women and girls out of the spiritual and physical oppression they were trapped in. Amy depended solely on the Lord to help provide for these women, and He met the needs in most remarkable ways. In 1887 she heard Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, speak at the Keswick Convention. Soon after, she felt a strong calling to foreign mission work. Amy went on to serve in Japan, China, and Ceylon; however, she ended up fulfilling her lifelong ministry in the southern tip of India. In 1901, Ms. Carmichael met a five year old little girl she fondly called ‘Pearl Eyes,’ who would forever change her life. Pearl Eyes, along with hundreds of other young boys and girls, was sold to the Hindu temple priests, where they were forced to partake in horrendous work at local shrines and temples. It was Pearl’s helpless account of her experiences that ignited the beginning of Amy’s rescue of these children who had been dedicated to the temple gods. Over the next five decades Amy would help rescue and raise over 1,000 children—through her ministry, the Dohnavur Fellowship—giving them a new life filled with hope, beauty, and most importantly, love.
“Give me the Love that leads the way
The Faith that nothing can dismay
The Hope no disappointments tire
The Passion that'll burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God”
― Amy Carmichael
Image credit: Aishwarya A, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMemory Verse: +25 points
“Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ”
Easy Recipe from the country of India (+50 points): Rice Kheer, Payasam
Recipe credit: https://manjulaskitchen.com/vegan-rice-kheer-payasam/ by Manjula
This recipe will serve 4.
Ingredients
1 ½ cup cooked rice
3 cup almond milk unflavored
2 cup coconut milk or 14 oz can
⅓ cup sugar
2 Tbsp almonds sliced
2 Tbsp pistachios crushed
1 Tbsp raisins
¼ tsp cardamom powder
Few strands of saffron
Instructions
Lightly mash the cooked rice.
Use heavy bottom pan to make kheer. Put all the ingredients except saffron, in the pan, rice, coconut milk, almond milk, sugar, almonds, pistachios, raisins, and cardamom powder.
Mix it well and bring it to boil on medium high heat.
After the kheer is boiling, lower the heat to low-medium and let it cook for about 20 minutes. Do stir the kheer a few times in between to scrape the sides of the pan.
I prefer the thicker consistency of kheer just like porridge consistency, but you can adjust the consistency of the kheer to your taste. Turn off the heat. The kheer is now ready,
Add a few strands of saffron on the top. You can serve this vegan rice kheer warm or chilled.
Biographies:
A Chance to Die by Elizabeth Elliot
Amy Carmichael: The Brown-Eyed Girl Who Learned to Pray (Illustrated) by Hunter Beless
Amy Carmichael: Beauty for Ashes by Iain H. Murray
Amy Carmichael: Let the Little Children Come by Lois Hoadley Dick
