EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST OF HALF OF 1900; FREDA SCHIMPF LINDSAY P/16

                                                                                                                                                                           

In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Freda Schimpf Lindsay. She lived from 1914 - 2010. In 1938, Freda completed her studies at L.I.F.E. Bible College in Los Angelos, California. In 1944, Freda and her husband accepted the pastorate of an Assemblies of God Church in Ashland, Oregon. 

During the 1940s and the 1950s, Freda and her husband travelled with healing evangelists across America and around the world. In 1948, Freda and her husband began an evangelistic ministry and publishing house called Voice of Healing. They continued to travel extensively in the mission fields of the world in the 1960s.

In 1970, Freda and her husband founded the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI). The two-year Bible School also included practical training for evangelism, planting churches and raising up disciples and leaders. It has trained many thousands of students and established more that 48 associate Bible Schools in such nations such as Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Brazil, Japan and India.

Freda served as the president of the international ministry after the death of her husband in 1973. Her son Dennis Lindsay says this of his mother, "She was forced into a leadership role as a woman." She stepped down as CFNI president in 1985 but remained active in ministry until she retired in 2008.

Freda died in 2010.