Jonathan Goforth (1937)

by Rosalind Goforth

Series: Men of Faith

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The remarkable story of a man whose influence is still felt in China today.After conversion to Christ as a young man, Jonathan Goforth eventually arrived in China with his wife Rosalind. They endured incredible hardships, including the loss of their first child to malaria. They fled for their lives from the Boxer Rebellion. Deeply inspired by a reading of Finney's Revival Lectures, Goforth set out with renewed determination and faith to spearhead a revival which rarely has been equaled in the history of modern missions.Goforth's amazing spiritual journey from political ambition to missionary revivalist in China.… (more)

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Jonathan Goforth

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Goforth of China

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Even a child is known by his doings. - Proverbs 10:11

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[Introduction] Many details in this record can be better understood after knowing something of the author, who for forty-nine years was Jonathan Goforth's closest companion and the mother of his eleven children.

While the Goforths were attending a summer conference, south of Chicago, the chairman introduced our "brilliant speaker" with overflowing praise.

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The remarkable story of a man whose influence is still felt in China today.After conversion to Christ as a young man, Jonathan Goforth eventually arrived in China with his wife Rosalind. They endured incredible hardships, including the loss of their first child to malaria. They fled for their lives from the Boxer Rebellion. Deeply inspired by a reading of Finney's Revival Lectures, Goforth set out with renewed determination and faith to spearhead a revival which rarely has been equaled in the history of modern missions.Goforth's amazing spiritual journey from political ambition to missionary revivalist in China.

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