1. Amy Beatrice Carmichael was an Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur.
18 Facts About Amy Carmichael
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Amy Carmichael served in India for 55 years and wrote 35 books about her work as a missionary.
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Amy Beatrice Carmichael was born in the small village of Millisle, County Down, Ireland, in 1867, as the oldest of seven siblings.
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Amy Carmichael's parents were David Carmichael, a miller, and his wife Catherine, both devout Christians.
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Amy Carmichael's father moved the family to Belfast when she was 16 years old, but he died two years later.
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Amy Carmichael continued at the Welcome until she received a call to work among the mill girls of Manchester in 1889, from which she moved on to overseas missionary work, despite suffering from neuralgia.
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Amy Carmichael applied to the CIM and lived in London at the training house for women, where she met author and missionary to China Mary Geraldine Guinness, who encouraged her to pursue missionary work.
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Amy Carmichael was ready to sail for Asia, but she was told that her health made her unfit for the work.
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Amy Carmichael postponed her missionary career with the CIM and decided later to join the Church Missionary Society.
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Amy Carmichael was commissioned by the Church of England Zenana Mission.
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Amy Carmichael founded the Dohnavur Fellowship in 1901 to continue her work, as she later wrote in The Gold Cord.
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Amy Carmichael's fellowship transformed Dohnavur into a sanctuary for over one thousand children.
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Amy Carmichael often said that her ministry of rescuing temple children started with a girl named Preena.
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Amy Carmichael provided her shelter, thus beginning her new ministry.
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Amy Carmichael herself dressed in Indian clothes and dyed her skin with dark coffee.
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Meanwhile, in 1916 Amy Carmichael formed a Protestant religious order called Sisters of the Common Life.
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Amy Carmichael was a prolific writer, publishing many books and articles about her experiences as a missionary in India.
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Amy Carmichael asked that no stone be put over her grave at Dohnavur.