Martyr’s Grace, A: 21 MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE ALUMNI WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR CHRIST

“Have you grace to be a martyr?” D. L. Moody was once asked.

“No,” he replied, “I have not. But if God wanted me to be one, he would give me a martyr’s grace.”

They came from around the world—administrators, teachers, nurses, church planters, pilots—regular people in the prime of life. Little did they know how life would end.

A Martyr’s Grace tells the individual stories of faithful men and women—all alumni of The Moody Bible Institute—who were killed for their faith. Where possible, each account describes their childhood, time at Moody, and the events leading up to their death.

What compels ordinary people to this kind of sacrifice? Only Christ. These 21 didn’t go expecting to die. But they went having already given their lives.

Bonnie Witherall | Hattie J. Rice | Josephine Elizabeth Desmond | Eleanor E. Chesnut, M.D. | Robert Elias Blomdahl | Gustaf David Nathaniel Tornvall | John Cornelius Stam | Betty Alden Stam | Esther Victoria Nordlund | Ella Mary Schenck | Hulda Jane Stumpf | Lucia Hammond Cozzens | Mary Elizabeth Baker | Stanley Gordon Ridgway | Erle Frederick Rounds | Signe Amelia Erickson | Alfonso Gaspar Taqueban Makil | Arthur Francis Tylee | Mildred Pauline Kratz | Karl Bregenzer | Ancel Edwin Allen

MARV NEWELL (D. Miss. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the Executive Director of CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA). Prior to that he was professor of Missions and Intercultural Studies at the Moody Theological Seminary in Chicago and he currently still serves as an adjunct professor. Previously, he and his wife, Peggy, served as missionaries for 21 years with TEAM, first as field missionaries in Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia and then Marv served as Asia-Pacific Regional Director. He is author of A Martyr’s Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause. Marv has also written Commissioned ¿ What Jesus Wants You To Know As You Go (2010).