Summer Reading Program 2013:
This summer, GGCA expects students entering grades 6 through 12 to read at least two faith hero biographies. As a Christian school, we hope to encourage our young people in their faith walks by reading about the lives of great men or women of faith.
Faith Hero Biography Assignment
As the student reads his or her chosen biographies, he or she should be on the lookout for the answers to the following questions:
1.What is the faith hero’s name? Did the faith hero’s name change?
2.Where and when was the faith hero born? 3.What was the faith hero’s parents and family like?
4.What was the faith hero’s childhood like?
5.What was the faith hero’s life like before he or she became a Christian?
6.What (and who) led the faith hero to becoming a Christian?
7.Where did the faith hero do his or her work for God? (Countries, cities, communities, etc.)
8.What type of ministry and practical work did the faith hero do? (Writing, preaching, Bible translation, medical, etc.)
9.What was the impact of this work on his or her time?
10.What were some notable quotes from the faith hero? Under what circumstances were the quotes made?
11.What external opposition and dangers did the faith hero face, how were these handled, and what kinds of problems were caused?
12.Who were the faith hero’s spouse and children, and what were they like? Was the family relationship strong or strained?
13.What organizations or trends were started based on the faith hero’s work?
14.What were the date, place, and circumstances of the faith hero’s death?
15.What is the lasting impact of the faith hero’s work for God?
When the student comes to school in September:
He or she must submit a document showing the answers to these fifteen questions for each faith hero.
- Each answer should be at least two complete sentences in length.
This assignment is due by Wednesday, September 4.
Attached, you will find a four-page list of biographies that are available in some local libraries. You can also purchase them online or from your local Christian bookstore.
1.What is the faith hero’s name? Did the faith hero’s name change?
2.Where and when was the faith hero born? 3.What was the faith hero’s parents and family like?
4.What was the faith hero’s childhood like?
5.What was the faith hero’s life like before he or she became a Christian?
6.What (and who) led the faith hero to becoming a Christian?
7.Where did the faith hero do his or her work for God? (Countries, cities, communities, etc.)
8.What type of ministry and practical work did the faith hero do? (Writing, preaching, Bible translation, medical, etc.)
9.What was the impact of this work on his or her time?
10.What were some notable quotes from the faith hero? Under what circumstances were the quotes made?
11.What external opposition and dangers did the faith hero face, how were these handled, and what kinds of problems were caused?
12.Who were the faith hero’s spouse and children, and what were they like? Was the family relationship strong or strained?
13.What organizations or trends were started based on the faith hero’s work?
14.What were the date, place, and circumstances of the faith hero’s death?
15.What is the lasting impact of the faith hero’s work for God?
When the student comes to school in September:
He or she must submit a document showing the answers to these fifteen questions for each faith hero.
- Each answer should be at least two complete sentences in length.
This assignment is due by Wednesday, September 4.
Attached, you will find a four-page list of biographies that are available in some local libraries. You can also purchase them online or from your local Christian bookstore.
Heroes of the Faith Biographies
Listed beneath the names of the faith heroes are book titles and authors’ last names. This is not an exhaustive list. If you can find other missionary biographies to read, you are welcome to do so, as long as they are age and grade appropriate.
Adoniram Judson
∙Bound for Burma (Benge) ∙To the Golden Shore (Anderson) ∙God’s Man in Burma (Hambrick) Fanny J. Crosby ∙An Autobiography (Crosby) ∙Queen of Gospel Songs (Davis) ∙The Blind Girl’s Song (Travis) George Muller ∙The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans (Benge) ∙Man of Faith and Miracles (Miller) ∙The Autobiography of George Muller (Muller) Brother Andrew ∙God’s Secret Agent (Benge) ∙God’s Smuggler (Brother Andrew) Jonathan Goforth ∙An Open Door to China (Benges) ∙By My Spirit (Goforth) Gladys Aylward ∙The Adventure of a Lifetime (Benges) ∙The Little Woman (Aylward) ∙No Mountain Too High (Myrna) Mary Slessor ∙Forward Into Calabar (Benges) ∙Servant to the Slave (Catherine) ∙White Queen of the Cannibals (Bueltman) Corrie Ten Boom ∙The Hiding Place (Ten Boom) ∙Keeper of the Angels’ Den (Benge) Esther Ahn Kim ∙If I Perish (Kim) Darlene Deibler Rose ∙Evidence Not Seen (Rose) Richard Wurmbrand ∙Tortured for Christ (Wurmbrand) Hudson Taylor ∙Hudson Taylor (Taylor) ∙Deep in the Heart of China (Benge) ∙A Man in Christ (Steer) David Livingston ∙Africa’s Trailblazer (Benge) ∙Explorer and Missionary (Wellman) Eric Liddell ∙Something Greater Than Gold (Benge) ∙Finish the Race (Keddie) ∙Pure Gold (McCasland) John Bunyan ∙Grace Abounding (Bunyan) John Newton ∙The Angry Sailor (Strom) ∙Out of the Depths (Newton) William Carey ∙Obliged to Go (Benge) Jim Elliot ∙One Great Purpose (Benge) ∙Shadow of the Almighty (Elliot) ∙Through Gates of Splendor (Elliot) ∙He is No Fool (Howat) Nate Saint ∙On a Wing and a Prayer (Benge) ∙Operation Auca (Drummond) ∙Jungle Pilot (Hitt) ∙End of the Spear (Saint) David Wilkerson ∙The Cross and the Switchblade (Wilkerson) Brother Yun ∙The Heavenly Man (Yun) Bruce Olson ∙Bruchko (Olson) Don Richardson ∙Peace Child (Richardson) ∙Lords of the Earth (Richardson) C.T. Studd ∙No Retreat (Benge) ∙Cricketer and Pioneer (Grubb) David Brainerd ∙A Love for the Lost (Cosby) Florence Young ∙Mission Accomplished (Benge) Amy Carmichael ∙Rescuer of Precious Gems (Benge) ∙A Chance to Die (Elliot) ∙Abandoned to God (Wellman) ∙With Daring Faith (Davis) ∙Amy Carmichael of Donhavur (Houghton) Dietrich Bonhoeffer ∙In the Midst of Wickedness (Benge) ∙Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Metaxas) Samuel Zwemer ∙The Burden of Arabia (Benge) Francis Asbury ∙Circuit Rider (Benge) Betty Greene ∙Wings to Serve (Benge) C.S. Lewis ∙Master Storyteller (Benge) Cameron Townsend ∙Good News in Every Language (Benge) Clarence Jones ∙Mr. Radio (Benge) Count Zinzendorf ∙Firstfruit (Benge) ∙The Lord of the Ring (Anderson) D.L. Moody ∙The Greatest Evangelist of the Nineteenth Century (Bailey) ∙The American Evangelist (Harvey) David Bussau ∙Facing the World Head-on (Benge) Elisabeth Elliot ∙Joyful Surrender (Benge) Ida Scudder ∙Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts Isobel Kuhn ∙On the Roof of the World (Benge) ∙Nothing Daunted (Repp) Jacob Deshazer ∙Forgive Your Enemies (Benge) John Williams ∙Messenger of Peace (Benge) Lillian Trasher ' ∙The Greatest Wonder in Egypt (Benge) Loren Cunningham ∙Into All the World (Benge) Lottie Moon ∙Giving Her All for China (Benge) Paul Brand ∙Helping Hands (Benge) ∙The Shoes That Love Made (Travis) Rachel Saint ∙A Star in the Jungle (Benge) Rowland Bingham ∙Into Africa’s Interior (Benge) Sundar Singh ∙Footprints Over the Mountains (Benge) ∙A Biography of the Remarkable Indian Disciple of Jesus Christ (Thompson) Wilfred Grenfell ∙Fisher of Men (Benge) ∙Arctic Adventurer (Finlayson) William Booth ∙Soup, Soap, and Salvation (Benge) ∙William Booth and His Salvation Army (Bennett) Samuel Morris ∙The African Boy God Sent to Prepare an American University for Its Mission to the World (Baldwin) Charles Finney ∙Autobiography of Charles G. Finney (Finney) John Paton ∙John G Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides (Paton) John Hyde ∙Praying Hyde (Carre) Katie Davis ∙Kisses From Katie (Davis) John Dekker ∙Torches of Joy (Dekker) Larry and Shirley Rascher ∙Incessant Drumbeat (Lagerborg) Kate McCord ∙In the Land of Blue Burqas (McCord) Brother David ∙Project Pearl (Brother David) Ivan Moiseyev ∙Vanya (Grant) |