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| Under the Burning Sun Short Missionary Stories |
Evelyn Stenbock, author
Raoma Jessup, illustrator
Smithville MO: Gospel Missionary Union, 1967
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Under the Burning Sun is a series of twelve short stories for children about the missionary efforts in foreign lands.
Gospel Missionary Union was founded in 1892 as the World's Gospel Union by George S. Fisher and is still in missionary ministry under the name Avant Ministries.
LINK to more information about the Gospel Missionary Union
George Fisher (1856-1920) was the son of missionary parents in Cass Lake, a town in northern Minnesota.
LINK to more information about George Fisher
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Stories in Under the Burning Sun
1 The Boy Who Decided Not To
2 A Guest of God
3 Three Makes a Crowd
4 A Slave-girl Finds the Way
5 Lights in the Terrible Darkness
6 Grace for the Trials
7 In the Shadow of the Thorny Hedge
8 Light in a Village
9 The Girl Who Wanted to Hear
10 The Message of the Strange Machine
11 Free! Without Price
12 Seven Days Journey to Church.
Evelyn Stenbock-Ditty (1929-2009) hailed from Wisconsin, the daughter of an itinerant preacher. She studied at Briercrest Bible Institute in Canada and went on to serve as a missionary for the Gospel Missionary Union in Morocco and later as their Director of Publications. Evelyn also worked for Nazarene Publishing House as an editor and staff writer and elsewhere.
LINK to full obituary for Evelyn Stenbock-Ditty
Raoma Jessup (1929-2012) served with her husband Al in the missionary field in North Africa and Europe.
LINK to full obituary for Raoma Jessup
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