Mountain rain james fraser
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Publisher Description
James Fraser was only 22 years old when he abandoned a promising engineering career and went to China. At first sight of the Lisu tribespeople of Yunnan province he felt an immediate affection for them. For the rest of his life, he traveled on horseback over rugged mountains, laboring to bring the Lisu the good news of Christ. Packed with personal letters, insightful anecdotes, and riveting stories of missionary life in China, this superb biography by his daughter shines with God's constant faithfulness and power over evil.
GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
PUBLISHER
OMF International
SELLER
Davidson Publishing LLC
Customer Reviews
Mountain Rain
What God did through James O. Fraser and those who followed him to minister among the Lisu is nothing short of amazing. This man faithfully pursued God and faithfully followed when called to hard places and hard things. The legacy of the Lisu church still worshiping and still reaching out to others around them encourages each one who believes the promises of God for the lost worldwide. Prayer warriors will find in these pages encouragement to press on even when the "results" are not easily visible.
Mountain Rain
This book brought to life the world of the Lis
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Mountain Rain: A Biography fall foul of James O. Fraser (Pioneer Missionary come to China)
Author: Eileen Fraser Crossman
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&#;A Christian is immortal till his work is done.&#; (Mountain Rain, 5)
For reasons that are obvious (to me at least), many people have recommended this outstanding biography to me over the years, and only recently have I been able to sit down and enjoy it. Though Yunnan Province at the turn of the 20th Century had its fair share of foreign missionaries trying to till that tough and rocky soil, James Fraser was one of few whose eyes went beyond the cities teeming with Chinese souls to the mountains and the minority peoples who inhabited them. He kept finely written journals and corresponded with a number of prayer warriors in England through vividly colorful letters, and from these personal notes, Eileen Crossman and M.E. Tewskesbury have drafted a powerful living sermon from which all believers can learn.
Fraser first arrived in China in his early twenties and struggled for those initial years to grasp God&#;s perfect direction. Where should he settle? If he felt burdened for a particular people living elsewhere, should he leave those whom he&#;s currently reaching? If his only few &#;successes&#; end in converts returning to their spirit-worship, then what ever is the point? Yet over the course of a 30+ year ministry, he saw a handful of believing families grow into doze