This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 174 of real cool history for kids. This episode is for Olivia Ricard, who wanted to hear the story of Amy Carmichael, the missionary. Hey, Olivia, this one's for you. Today, you guys, I'm going to tell you

the story of an amazing servant of God, a woman who spent more than 50 years in India rescuing children and teaching them about Jesus.

I cannot tell you how much I admire this woman's tenacity and faith. Now, there's a word you probably

don't hear every day, right? Tenacity means unassurving persistence. You can think of this as a type of determination. When someone has this character

quality, we say they have grit. Well, Amy Carmichael was a super gritty woman. She was so

determined to serve God by rescuing children.

But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself, you guys.

Let's start at the beginning.

But before we do, let's find the location of where our story is going to unfold.

So pause me for a moment and go grab your globe or world map if you can. Okay. Okay. Do you have it? Great. Now,

let's find Ireland first. Ireland is a small island in Europe. It's just off the coast of England. We've found it before in our previous episode about St. Patrick,

for one. Well, Ireland is a beautiful green island country and it is surrounded by the

Atlantic Ocean. Okay. Now, keep your finger on Ireland. Okay. Now, let's go find India. India is in Asia,

and it sits just below China and stretches far down into the Indian Ocean. So move your finger to the

right on your map or globe

until you find China,

and then move your finger down until you can see India.

Okay, so as you can see, India is much, much, much, much bigger

than Ireland, isn't it?

Look closely at the distance between Ireland and India. That is a long

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