Gladys Aylward

Eden writes:

Gladys Aylward was a missionary who went to China to teach people there about Jesus. Soon after she arrived Japanese soldiers came to China and dropped bombs on their city. China was at war. Gladys adopted orphan children, her first was a little girl called Ninepence because she bought her for all the money in her pocket which was nine pence. Soon she was looking after many war orphans. One day the Japanese discovered that Gladys had been a spy for the Chinese, and was against them. They offered a large sum of money if someone could hand her over, but Gladys had escaped into the mountains before anyone could hand her over. Gladys miraculously managed to get all her war orphans across the Yellow River and to safety.

Niamh writes:
Gladys Aylward was a missionary who went to China. She was going to work with Mrs Lawson, after many weeks she found her in Yang Cheng, a beautiful Chinese village that looked like Cinderella's palace. After Mrs Lawson died, Gladys was asked to go from village to village inspecting every little girls feet making sure they were not bound, and telling Bible Stories as she went. Soon a lot of people became Christians. Very soon everyone was calling her Ai-weh-deh which means virtuous one. Gladys had also five adopted children of her own and 394 war orphans that she was looking after. The Japanese were fighting the Chinese and Gladys had to take all of the kids to the caves in the mountains to hide. They went back to Yang Cheng when the Japanese had moved out of the village..... but the Japanese came back and Gladys had to take 94 of the children across the Yellow River. After travelling across big mountains they got to the river safely. They had to pray for a boat to come so they could cross the river. God answered their prayer, a boat came and they could cross the river. Gladys and the children arrived at Sian safely.