Мод Кэри
Мод Кэри (1878–1967) был христианским американским миссионером в Северной Африке , в частности Марокко . Она выросла, зная, что однажды станет миссионером, потому что ее родители часто размещали миссионеров, когда они проходили. Ее родители понимали работу, которую они выполняли очень важной, и передали эту веру своей дочери. Как только ей исполнилось восемнадцать, Мод подписалась на американскую школу подготовки миссионерского обучения, авант -министерства (GMU). После окончания этого обучения и выполнения некоторых миссий в американских внутренних городах , Мод был принят для поездки с GMU, чтобы служить вместе с несколькими борющими христианскими миссионерами в Марокко. В течение следующих пятидесяти лет своей жизни Мод Кэри служила богатым и бедным мусульманам в Марокко, пытаясь принести им евангельское послание, которое ее школа и родители учили ее. Сложный старт заставил Мод задать вопросом ее эффективности в Марокко, но она доверяла, что в конечном итоге будут обращения из ислама в христианство и останется до тех пор, пока она не станет слишком больной, чтобы служить. Очень боли бы она вернулась в Америку для лечения и как можно скорее вернулась, чтобы продолжить свою жизнь, живя среди Мусульмане . Благодаря трудному старту и ее болезни Мод Кэри стала христианским лидером в Марокко для союза Миссии Евангелия, отвечающего за перевод и библейские школы. В конце концов она стала слишком больной, чтобы продолжить и вернулась в Соединенные Штаты. Ее тяжелая работа в Марокко, возможно, не произвела много обращений во время ее пребывания там, но было несколько обращений, которые рассматривались как успех, и продолжила христианское влияние в стране еще долго после ее жизни. После пятидесяти лет службы Мод вернулась в Соединенные Штаты из -за ее болезни и умерла в 1967 году.
Семья
[ редактировать ]Maude Cary began her life on a Kansas farm in 1878.[1] She was born within a Judeo-Christian family to Jedediah and Sarah Cary [1] who saw an importance in the Christian mission movement.[2] Jedediah, is described as a "gentle, quiet man."[1] He did not have the best of luck as he lost most of the family's money and for the rest of his life raised his family on a poor farm in Kansas. Sarah Cary was said to be "an independent woman, was a talented musician... and an outstanding Bible teacher."[2] Maude's passion for the Christian mission movement was gained through the many traveling missionaries that visited their farm and stayed for a few days. "At age of eighteen she enrolled at the GMU Bible Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, to be trained for a ministry in overseas missions."[2] Maude Cary remained single for her entire life. She was engaged to a missionary in Morocco, George Reed, although he had second thoughts and unofficially called off the engagement by moving to minister to a different tribe and never spoke to Maude again.[2] She did desire to be married but is said to have finally, "accepted her fate of being an 'old maid missionary.'" [3]
Training
[edit]While Maude Cary worked through her training at GMU Bible Institute she practiced what was being taught. She was quick to devote herself to practical learning experiences within America. She, along with others, would get up quite early, often missing meals, to spend time in prayer before God for the people around the world that had not heard the Gospel message. They also wanted to ensure that there was nothing between them and God that would hinder the spreading of the message they believed needed to be told around the world . Anticipating her time to leave America and be a Christian missionary abroad she studied different languages and was said to have been a "natural linguist."[1] Because Gospel Missionary Union was training teams to go to Morocco, "in addition to her language study in Arabic, she was studying the language of the Berbers, an ancient tribe that inhabited the area long before the Arabs moved across North Africa."[2] Maude devoted much of her time to studies knowing that one day she would travel to Morocco and anticipated never returning to America. She was ready to take this step with the message her God had given her whenever an organization would accept her.
First Missions Activities
[edit]Before Maude was sent as a missionary to Northern Africa her school instructed her to help the less fortunate within the United States of America. Being sent first to Leavenworth, Kansas, Maude along with several other girls "held weekly Bible classes, visited homes and hospitals and conducted young people's missionary meetings."[1] Although they were met with opposition they continued ministering until being sent to Hastings, Nebraska. Once again they were received with opposition and yet Maude did not become discouraged knowing that she was learning and would soon be headed to Africa. "Early in the fall of 1901 another party was organized to join the missionary team struggling to gain a foothold in Morocco. Among the group was a quiet, pleasant girl named Maude Cary."[1] Maude Cary believed she was ready. She had been waiting for this news ever since leaving home at age eighteen. Her mom, Sarah Cary, was overjoyed upon the arrival of the news. Her daughter was finally headed to Africa to be a missionary and preach this Gospel that her parents had instilled within her. Maude's father took the news much harder but trusted in the Lord to protect his daughter as she traveled.
Missions in Morocco
[edit]Missionary activities in Morocco proved to be harder than they were in the United States, and the opposition did not disappear as Maude had hoped. There was a group of single women who could fully devote themselves to the mission and yet this quality "that made them... supremely capable for missionary service [was] viewed with suspicion by their weaker sisters and [was] threatening to their male colleagues."[2] Within her team there was competition amongst the females and the males to gain the better scores on language tests. "The fact that she outscored a male counterpart in language study, combined with her tendency toward gaiety, friendliness, and laughter and pride of dress, led to an internal mission board decision that she should return home."[3] Maude was crushed with this news and yet would not give up either. Finally convincing the GMU's board she should stay, Maude desired to settle in and not let anything or anyone make her leave Morocco. This was the place she believed God had called her to live and serve as a missionary.
Not only did Maude face attack from within the organization but from the locals as well as Maude was teaching a different belief system than the one they held to. As Maude would share her Gospel message with them, the locals would threaten to take her life. Maude was asking these Muslims to change their whole belief system and this was worthy of death. At one point the political situation created such a dangerous environment that Maude and the other missionaries with her were forced to move to the coast away from the few Muslims that had befriended them. For many years Maude was faithful and witnessed with her Christian gospel to the Muslims around her without seeing any converts to Christianity. She felt very much like a failure as she did not always act as the missions organization asked her to and at times believed that "the mission would have been better off without her."[2] But she continued to serve faithfully. She had moved to Africa for life and would continue to minister when she was given the opportunity. It was not until she had served for twenty-three years that Maude Cary returned to the United States on furlough.[2] This break in the United States was a good time of reflection for Cary as she looked back over her many years of service. The outcome looked bleak as there was no Christian church founded and Islam was still the primary belief system within the whole of Morocco. But Maude Cary was convinced that it was worth the hard work and that one day the dominance that Islam had would be broken and would stand alongside Christianity. Because of this belief, she returned to Morocco continually praying for more missionaries to join her.[2]
Вторая мировая война началась, когда Мод Кэри была в Марокко, и «все миссионеры были эвакуированы, ожидая себя и трех других одиноких женщин. Она была помещена на работу за работу». [3] The situation was difficult as the men left the country to fight in the war, but Maude and the three other single women continued in their prayers for helpers while preaching to the Moroccans and taking on the ministry of the men. "Faithfully Maude witnessed for Christ to rich and poor, whether they listened eagerly or not... she worked extra hours translating and correcting hymns in the language of the common people."[1] Although the borders were closed during the war none of the previous mission work went to waste. Maude Cary and the three other women saw a glimpse of hope when seven missionaries applied for visas in April 1945.[1] When the war ended and the borders were opened again more missionaries came and the four single women saw their prayers answered. Maude "conducted language school and helped new recruits become situated."[2] Although her beginning was in frustration and pain she was now teaching others and creating a Christian impact within Morocco. There were signs of hope for the Christian missionaries during these times as well as Lejb Feldman and Mehdi Ksara converted from Islam to Christianity after hearing the Gospel presented by Maude. Both men were shunned in their towns as they rejected Islam and yet found confidence in their faith through Maude's teaching.[ 1 ]
В «1951 году был организован Библейский институт для обучения молодых марокканских мужчин». [ 2 ] И в том же году мисс Кэри стала очень больной, и снова пришлось улететь обратно в Америку, но на этот раз для лечения. [ 1 ] Решив, Мод не могла отказаться от влияния, которое она создала в Марокко, а год спустя, в возрасте семидесяти четырех лет, вернулся в Марокко. «В течение трех лет она продолжала свое министерство, но из -за повторяющихся проблем со здоровьем миссия начала организовать ее пенсию», и она ушла в 1955 году. [ 2 ]
Марокко
[ редактировать ]Когда Мод Кэри впервые прибыл в Марокко, страна была на беспорядках. Хотя это североафриканская страна, в религии и расе она имеет ближневосточный климат. [ 1 ] В настоящее время это арабское государство и «самая западная страна в Северной Африке. Население Марокко является вторым по величине». [ 4 ] Некоторые марокканцы не знают, должны ли они думать о себе как о африканских или арабских, как оба, кажется, важны в их стране. Бедность, которая мучила страна, не помогла в этой ситуации, заставляя людей следовать или делать все, что нужно, чтобы остаться в живых. [ 5 ] Во время пребывания Мод Кэри в Марокко обращение из ислама в христианство было очень мало, и все же «эпоха свободно и открыто провозглашало Евангелие в Марокко длилась двенадцать очень плодотворных лет. Это началось с заметного роста в интересах, когда мисс Кэри вышел на пенсию, и и и Это закончилось годом, когда она умерла! » [ 1 ]
Евангельский союз миссии
[ редактировать ]Миссионерский союз Евангелия (GMU), ныне известный как авант -министерства, начиналось как движение христианских миссионеров из Америки, путешествующих в Северную Африку и Южную Америку, проповедуя христианское Евангелие. «Мировой союз Евангелия (Миссионерский союз Евангелия) появился из библейского изучения для членов Канзасской YMCA в июне 1889 года. Услышав о Судане и его предполагаемых 90 миллионов душ без евангелиста, несколько человек предложили себя миссионерами». [ 6 ] Поскольку эта миссионерская организация стала близкой к дому Мод, а ее родители приветствовали миссионеров, для нее было бы очевидный выбор посещать школу, которую они начали, а затем поехать с ними в Марокко.
Ссылки
[ редактировать ]- ^ Подпрыгнуть до: а беременный в дюймовый и фон глин час я Дж k л Стенбок, Эвелин. «Мисс Терри!»: История Мод Кэри, миссионера GMU в Марокко Линкольне, NE: Back to Bible Broadcast, 1970.
- ^ Подпрыгнуть до: а беременный в дюймовый и фон глин час я Дж k л Такер, Рут. От Иерусалима до Ириан Джая: биографическая история христианских миссий . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004. https://books.google.com/books?id=ghs4ou2pyaec&dq=maud+cary&pg=pa11 (по состоянию на 14 февраля 2011 г.).
- ^ Подпрыгнуть до: а беременный в Такер, Рут А. "Мод Кэри". В биографическом словаре христианских миссий. 1: 118. Нью -Йорк: Macmillan Ссылка на США, 1998.
- ^ Спенсер, доктор Уильям. Глобальные исследования: Ближний Восток. 10 -е изд. Duduque, IA: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Company, 2004.
- ^ Хубанд, Марк. Воины Пророка: борьба за ислам. Колорадо: Westview Press, 1999.
- ^ Роберт, Дана Ли. Американские женщины в миссии: социальная история их мысли и практики. Mercer University Press, . 1997
Внешние ссылки
[ редактировать ]- Голоса блога от христиан за библейское равенство
- Словарь африканской христианской биографии
- Миссии временной линии
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