EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; AMY CARMICHAEL P/85

                                                                                                                                                                             

In this post I will focus on a woman named Amy Carmichael. She lived from 1867 - 1951. Amy's father was David Carmichael and her mother was Catherine Carmichael. Both were committed Christians.They lived in the small village of Millisle, County Down, Ireland. In her youth Amy attended Harrogate Ladies College for four years.

Amy's father moved the family to Belfast when she was sixteen years old, but he died two years later. In Belfast the family founded the Welcome Evangelical Church. 

In the mid-1880s, Amy started a Sunday -morning class for the "Shawlies" (mill girls who wore shawls instead of hats) in the church hall of Rosemary Street Presbyterian. This mission grew quickly to include several hundred attendees. 

Amy continued at the Welcome Evangelical Church until she received a call to work among the mill girls of Manchester in 1889, from which she moved on to overseas missionary work.