Gladys Aylward knew all her life that the 1930's China was the place where she belonged. Gladys Aylward was a housemaid in England when she felt God calling her to China.
The CIM ( China Inland Mission's missionary ) rejected her application because they thought she could not do it.

Gladys worked as a domestic. She scraped and saved every penny she could earn and booked an overland rail passage to on a poor, remote Chinese village October 15, 1930.

En route she is stuck in Russia and had to find a way out or spend her life there. Than her train stops in the middle of a battle field! Many would have given up the quest, but not the "Little Woman". She was a feisty little spiritual giant.

The "Little Woman" has great faith which carried her to the people of China. Gladys Aylward's life is one that defied all expectations.
Deep faith eliminates fear. Conviction gives strength to endure hardships and remove obstacles in her incredible, inspiring missionary career.

A small, powerless and vulnerable human who was strengthened and loved by a great God. God blessed her devotion. She was severely tested even though she had proven herself faithful repeatedly. When things looked bleak, often matters of life and death, she struggled against impossible odds.

Gladys Aylward was a living sacrifice for God and the people of China. Gladys was a friend to all. Now called Jen Ai ("The One Who Loves People"). Gladys had to share God's love, mercy, power and grace with everyone and anyone around her, whatever the cost.

She arrived in a secluded station in north China. With only a letter of recommendation to an elderly missionary. Gladys could not speak the language, has no money, little support from elderly missionary and less from the local government.

She had to create an "independent" (self-supporting Missionary) Gladys convinced the Mandarin to give her a job. The Mandarin gave her a job as foot-inspecter (Everyone hated the foot-inspecter). So the Mandarin though that would get rid of her.

Well; not only did she learn the language, but she became the local foot-inspecter , preventing parents from binding the feet of their daughters, and used the opportunity to share the gospel in many of the surrounding villages.

She also began taking care of orphans and children that had been sold. Creating an orphanage. Her meager resources were strained and helped Lawson re-open an old inn.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Sixth Happiness refers to the sixth happiness one has to find for them selves in God, in addition to the five traditional Chinese happiness' (Not sure think is health, prosperity, family, joy, long life .)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - became a success as Gladys told stylized gospel stories, both to enchant the guests and spread the word.

Gladys to enlarge her care for displace children until she had about a hundred children which she took care of.

Gladys life in China was sadness and ecstasy. Tears of joy with the Mandarin's conversion to Christianity. A romance, with the Eurasian Colonel Lin. Horrified after witnessing a beheading.

By the time Japan bombed her village and she had to run from Japanese soldiers. To lead her children to safety they had to make a treacherous trek on a few days march to the safety of another city with all the children her orphans.

The true story of her over twenty years of service that was her destiny. The high point was when her Chinese orphan children need her to save their lives, when Japan invaded China.