Gladys Aylward and the Call No One Else Could Hear

In 1920s London, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid — barely five feet tall, with little formal education and no connections to the missionary world. Yet night after night, as she tidied drawing rooms in wealthy Belgravia homes, something stirred in her that she could not name. She read accounts of inland China, of villages where no one had spoken the name of Christ, and felt a persistent, quiet pull she did not yet know how to answer.…