The Parlor Maid Who Moved Mountains

In 1930, Gladys Aylward knelt beside her narrow bed in a London parlor maid's quarters and asked God for one thing: passage to China. The China Inland Mission had already rejected her — too old at twenty-seven, too uneducated, too unlikely to learn Mandarin. She saved every shilling from scrubbing floors and serving tea until she could buy a one-way railway ticket across Siberia.…