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Amy Carmichael was born in the small village of Millisle in Northern Ireland to David and Catherine Carmichael. She later became a Missionary in India , opening an orphanage and founding a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for fifty five years without Furlough . EARLY LIFE Her parents were devout Presbyterians , she was the oldest of seven children. She was adopted and tutored by Robert Wilson, cofounder of the Keswick Convention . Her father died when she was still young. In many ways she was an unlikely candidate for missionary work. She suffered Neuralgia , a disease of the nerves that made her whole body weak and achy and often put her in bed for weeks on end. WORK IN INDIA Initially Amy travelled to Japan for 15 months but she quickly found her life long vocation in India. She was commissioned by the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. Much of her work was with Children. Some of whom were saved from forced prostitution. The organisation she founded was known as the Dohnavur fellowship. Dohnavur is situated in Tamil Nadu, just 30 miles from the tip of India. The fellowship would become, under her loving guidance, a place of sanctuary for more than one thousand children who would otherwise have faced a bleak future. In an effort to respect Indian culture, members of the organisation wore Indian dress and the children were given Indian names. She herself dressed in Indian clothes, dyed her skin with coffee, and often travelled long distances on India's hot, dusty roads to save just one child from suffering. Amy Carmichael's work also extended to the printed page. She was a prolific writer, producing thirty-five published books including His Thoughts Said . . . His Father Said (1951), If (1953), and Edges of His Ways (1955). Best known, perhaps, is an early historical account, Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India (1903). DEATH OF AMY CARMICHAEL In 1931 Miss Carmichael is badly injured in a fall, which left her bedridden much of the time until her death. Amy Carmichael died in India in 1951 at the age of 83. She asked that no stone be put over her grave, instead the children she had cared for put a bird bath over it with the single inscription "Amma", which means mother in the Tamil . SAYINGS AND QUOTES
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