People Who Made a Difference Contest-Please read first post

[Amphigouri]

I would love to join, I think I know who I'm going to do!

 

[RuthD]

I have to iron out a screenshot problem. Please stay dressed until I get it fixed. I have contacted Gregged and am waiting for his pm.

 

[RuthD]

The screenshooting is going good now. Thanks Greg. If I missed anyone who is ready for one just post that you are ready please.

 

[RuthD]

I would love to join, I think I know who I'm going to do!

Cool just let me know when you're ready for your screenshot.

 

[Amphigouri]

I am ready for my screenshot. I am Marlene Dietrich.

I can't post pictures yet, so I'm going to get a friend of mine to post it right below me.

Many people seem to think that singers and movie stars can't make a difference. They're just there for entertainment. I disagree whole-heartedly.
Marlene Dietrich and I share many things in common: our looks, our style, even our last name, but most importantly we share the same home country and the belief in its people. During World War II, and even shortly after, Marlene found herself ashamed of her country, she was ashamed to be German, and even became an American citizen and refused to return to her home country.
However, she soon realised she was not ashamed of her country, but was actually ashamed of Hitler and his followers. As she continued her musical career, she told the world about her people: the Germans who fought the Nazis and their ideals.
On a world tour she visited Israel. A country which hated Germany more than any other during that time. She was told by everyone she met that she should leave the country, that she was disrespectful. She didn't listen. She was told by every political figure in Israel that she could not sing in German. She didn't listen. She was told that if she came to the country, she would be killed. She didn't listen. Instead she made a speech. She told the whole country how she felt and changed their minds.
Israel, the home of Judaism, forgave Germany that day.
Being a young German, with blond hair and blue eyes, many people harass me, assuming I'm a Nazi. Jews in my school fear me. Though this hurts, I think of Marlene and her strength and bravery, and I know that if I stand up for myself and my country, I will change their minds.
She was born December 27 1901 and died 90 years later, May 6 1992. I wish I could've shaken her hand.
Marlene is holding the justice scales because that's what she believes in.

 

[TeenApe]

Marlene Dietrich:

 

[RuthD]

Those who have had their screenshots taken can change their clothes now if they want.

 

[Daffodilly]

I'd like to join please!
I need to google up a photo though!

 

[RuthD]

Signing you up.

 

[Daffodilly]

I'm ready for my screen shot, when you get a chance,

Fanny Crosby
Frances Jane Crosby was born in 1820. When she was 6 weeks old she was ill and the doctor recommended hot poultices on her eyes as treatment. The poultices blinded her.

Fanny Crosby didn't let her blindness hinder her, nor did she sit around feeling sorry for herself. These quotes sum up her attitude towards her blindness:

It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.
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She also once said, "when I get to Heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior!"

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During her lifetime, she wrote over 8,000 hymns. It's difficult to find an American hymnal that doesn't contain hymns written by Fanny Crosby.

My favorite Fanny Crosby songs are Blessed Assurance, He Hideth My Soul and To God Be the Glory.

 

[CHristsaves]

How do you all get your pictures to show up so large? When I try to do it all I can get up is a thumbnail. HELP!!

 

[mindalan]

I don't stand a chance in this game.


But, I stand by my hero. Wangari went through so much and planting 30 million trees is a big deal.

 

[Rhapsody]

I'd like to play!
I think I'll do Florence Nightingale, I'll let you know when I'm ready for the screen shot

 

[RuthD]

Signing you up now.

 

[RuthD]

How do you all get your pictures to show up so large? When I try to do it all I can get up is a thumbnail. HELP!!

You usually just click on the picture thumbnail and it enlarges. Unless the picture is actually that size that is.

 

[Hisbygrace]

I'd like to enter please.
Charlotte Diggs "Lottie" Moon
Teacher, Writer, Missionary

Born: 12-12-1840, Albermarle Co., VA
Died: 12-24-1912, Kobe, Japan
Buried: Crewe, VA
A pioneer in the field of missionary service, Moon came to Cartersville in 1871, when the mission field was still closed to single women, to open and operate a school for girls. In 1873, Moon received appointment as a missionary, and left from the First Baptist Church in Cartersville to mission in China. Today, the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church in Cartersville, which organized on Moon's behalf, is the oldest Baptist Women's Missionary Society in Georgia. The church's "Lottie Moon Room" and two monuments erected in town commemorate Moon's brief sojourn through Bartow County.

 

[RuthD]

HBG-please let me know when you want your screen shot. I took it without the basket. I will overwrite it when you are ready. It's easy.

 

[Hisbygrace]

Lottie (Charlotte) Moon


(b. Viewmont, Albermarle County, Va., Dec. 12, 1840; d. Kobe, Japan, Dec. 24, 1912). Missionary in Tengchow and Pingtu, China, for nearly 40 years; instrumental in instigating first Christmas offering, 1888. She was educated at Female Seminary at Botetourt Springs (later known as Hollins) and at Albermarle Female Institute, Charlottesville. She was converted in the spring of 1859 in a meeting by John Albert Broadus, then pastor at Charlottesville. She taught at Danville, Ky., and Cartersville, Ga. She volunteered for missionary service in Feb., 1873, in response to a sermon on the text, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest," and she was appointed to China, July 7, 1873, by the Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. In 1888 she wrote to the Baptist women of the South, pleading for reinforcements. The first Christmas offering in 1888 provided three additional missionaries. She spent 14 years in China before taking her first regular furlough. Toward the end of her days, she suffered with her Chinese people in the terrible famine. She gave all she had. In the time of deepest trials she wrote, "I hope no missionary will be as lonely as I have been." Literally starving, she grew steadily weaker. Before Christmas, 1912, Cynthia Miller, faithful nurse, started back to America with Lottie Moon; death came to the frail missionary, Christmas Eve, while the ship was at harbor in Kobe, Japan. The present Christmas offering for foreign missions, sponsored by the W.M.U., is named for Lottie Moon.
Biographical Sources:
Allen, Catherine. The New Lottie Moon Story, 1980.
Lawrence, Una Roberts. Lottie Moon, 1927.
"Lottie Moon." Shapers of Southern Baptist Heritage pamphlet series. Southern Baptist Historical Society.


Archival sources in Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives.
Moon, Lottie. Missionary Correspondence. AR. 551-2.

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[Hisbygrace]

I think the picture without the basket would be best Ruth....Thank you

 

[RuthD]

Okay.