A Martyr's Grace Stories of Those Who Gave All For Christ and His Cause

by Newell, Marvin J.; Nyquist, J. Paul

• ISBN13: 9780802478290
• ISBN10: 0802478298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Moody Publishers

Summary

As a former director of TEAM in Indonesia, Marvin Newell knows the challenges and dangers of missionary work. Now he tells the story of messengers of Christ who didn't survive to tell their own. Newell's sobering look at 21 students of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago rides the momentum of DC Talk's Jesus Freaksand the major motion picture The End of the Spear.

Author Biography

MARVIN NEWELL (D. Miss. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), is professor of Missions and
Intercultural Studies at the Moody Graduate School, Chicago. He and his wife, Peggy, were missionaries
for 15 years in Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia. Marv was then Asia-Pacific Regional Director with
TEAM for six years before becoming a professor at Moody. The Newells have four grown children
and two grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Foreword
DR. MICHAEL EASLEY	9	(2)
Introduction
HAVE YOU GRACE TO BE A MARTYR?	11	(6)
Serving in
THE MIDDLE EAST
1. Bonnie Witherall
"This is My doing"	17	(10)
CHINA
2. Hattie J. Rice
"Salt of the earth"	27	(8)
3. Josephine Elizabeth Desmond
"It is such a joy"	35	(8)
4. Eleanor E. Chesnut, M.D.
"I am so fond of the people"	43	(8)
5. Robert Elias Blomdahl
"We must be faithful"	51	(4)
6. Gustaf David Nathaniel Tornvall
"Made in China"	55	(8)
7. John Cornelius Stam
"Whether by life or by death"	63	(12)
8. Betty Alden Stam
"To live is Christ"	75	(12)
9. Esther Victoria Nordlund
"The mission work is dear to my heart"	87	(8)
AFRICA
10. Ella Mary Schenck
"That which our lives cannot do..."	95	(8)
11. Hulda Jane Stumpf
"On bended knee and with heart bowed to God"	103	(8)
12. Lucia Hammond Cozzens
"The great privilege that is mine"	111	(6)
13. Mary Elizabeth Baker
"Settled long ago"	117	(10)
14. Stanley Gordon Ridgway
"Jesus will make it all right"	127	(10)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
15. Erle Frederick Rounds
"We can meet again"	137	(8)
16. Signe Amelia Erickson
"I have been charmed with the people"	145	(6)
17. Alfonso Gaspar Taqueban Makil
"Few have ever heard of Christ. I must go."	151	(10)
LATIN AMERICA
18. Arthur Francis Tylee
"I am in the will of God"	161	(10)
19. Mildred Pauline Kratz
"Faithful and dependable"	171	(6)
20. Karl Bregenzer
"Somehow His name will be glorified"	177	(8)
21. Ancel Edwin Allen
"Why This Waste?"	185	(10)
PUTTING MARTYRDOM IN PERSPECTIVE	195	(14)
Acknowledgments	209	(2)
Sources	211