The Parlour Maid Nobody Thought Fit for China

In 1930, Gladys Aylward stood before the China Inland Mission board in London and heard words that stung like a slap: she was too old at twenty-seven, too uneducated, too ordinary. A parlour maid from Edmonton with no seminary training and no prospects. The board saw a small woman with limited schooling. God saw something else entirely. Gladys refused to accept their verdict.…