Today’s Transforming Moments Broadcast: Amy Carmichael’s Modern Day Brothers

by Joe Pursch on July 9th, 2010

Hello, I’m Joe Pursch, and this is a Transforming Moment. I often tell you stories here on the broadcast of great missionaries of the past and their huge sacrifices for the lost. But such courage is not limited to centuries past. I have a friend from a nice suburb right here in Sacramento who had great financial success by his early thirties and a wonderful family. But when he went on a short-term mission trip to Cambodia and saw the suffering of little girls trapped in the sex trade, he couldn’t shake the call of God to do something. So he and a pastor friend both left their careers, raised some funds, and moved their families to Cambodia as missionaries, using their business skill to build an orphanage to rescue these little girls. My friend lived out the words of missionary Amy Carmichael, who wrote, “You can’t just pitchfork souls into heaven, because souls are more or less attached to bodies. You can’t save the one without serving the other.” My friend saw the bodies of children shamefully abused, and took action both to rescue their bodies and redeem their souls. I’m Joe Pursch, and this has been a Transforming Moment.

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