"A 70-year-old grandmother from Nebraska who took early retirement became a global evangelist, preaching the Gospel in the most dangerours places on Earth," reports Charisma News. Gwen Edland has spoken in over 40 nations and led thousands of people to Christ, including a Voodoo priest in Haiti, who himself subsequently led 25 of his colleagues to Christ. "She constantly encourages others to take the Gospel to the poorest of the poor, and would travel anywhere on Earth to bring some of Jesus' love to the people," says missions pastor Connie Bissen of Omaha's Trinity Church, where Edland is a member. The widowed mother of four has twelve grandchildren. She once prayed that God would send her to places where the people had never heard about Jesus. Her first missionary trip was not to the third world, though, but to Sweden. She was there in 1991, and says that God taught her Swedish miraculously so that she could explain the Gospel to anyone prepared to listen. In 2003, she accompanied a medical team to Recife in Brazil, where she spoke in a prison to inmates sentenced to life for murder or gang violence. 480 came to faith in Christ then, and 850 the following year.
Source: www.charismanow.com
