This week in Christian history: Martin Luther King Sr. dies; Amy Carmichael goes to India
Amy Carmichael arrives in India – Nov. 9, 1895
This week marks the anniversary of when Amy Carmichael, a British missionary known for her efforts to care for exploited children, arrived in India to do mission work.
A native of Northern Ireland whose family moved to England when she was young, Carmichael had previously worked in Japan as a missionary, but had to return home due to illness.
Carmichael is most known for her work rescuing Indian children from Hindu temple prostitution, founding the Dohnavur Fellowship, which was named after the village where it was located.
“From the beginning it was a family, never an institution,” explained the Fellowship. “Baby nurseries led on to cottage homes, schools for all ages from toddlers to teenagers, a dairy farm, rice lands, fruit and vegetable gardens, tailoring departments, kitchens, laundries, workshops, and building offices with teams of builders, carpenters and electricians.”
“From the small beginning of one obedient woman and one small child came a ‘model village’, complete with its own simple Indian facilities and even a hospital to serve the sick and in which to preach the Gospel to the thousands from the villages who flocked to it for help.”
