Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.

2023年1月31日 · Gladys Aylward was a determined woman. Once she felt the call to the mission field, she refused to allow any excuses to hold her back. Although she appeared to lack the resources for mission work, God affirmed her calling and gave her many opportunities to overcome practical obstacles.

2020年1月3日 · Gladys Aylward was a British-born independent missionary who worked in China. When Gladys arrived in China, she didn’t have any missionary training and faced a lot of hurdles in the beginning. However, she soon found success as an evangelical Christian missionary.

2023年2月20日 · Gladys Aylward was the first missionary to become a Chinese citizen. She went back to China and spent the rest of her life helping the Chinese. Gladys Aylward became known around the world for the sacrifice she made to help the Chinese learn the way to God.

2004年7月31日 · Not to be Forgotten: Gladys Aylward 1902-1970 Missionary to China In 1930, a young woman named Gladys Aylward left the suburbs of London and set out for China, convicted that she was meant to preach the gospel to the people of this remote land.

English missionary in China and Taiwan who worked to end the traditional Chinese practice of binding women's feet, led a large group of orphans out of occupied China, and set up orphanages in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Name variations: Ai-wehdeh, Ai Weh Teh, Hsiao Fu-jeh. Pronunciation: AIL-wood.

Gladys, seeing the hand of God, believed she was that woman and after making contact, in 1932 she left her home and all that she knew to join Jeannie Lawson in the little town of Yangcheng, set between high mountains.

2021年9月14日 · Gladys Aylward was the daughter of Rosina and Thomas Aylward. They lived in north London, where they led a simple but happy life. While Gladys was attending church in her twenties, she felt called to serve God in China. Determined to follow her dream, Gladys enrolled at missionary school.

2010年4月28日 · Have you ever been captured by an inner vision, something you knew that you had to do--but no one took you seriously? Gladys Aylward knew the feeling. As a teenager, she read a magazine article about China that changed her life.

2017年8月17日 · Aylward, Gladys (1902-1970) British missionary in China. A housemaid born in Edmonton, north of London, Aylward went to China as an independent missionary.