Study Guide for the book



Study Guide for the book: Women Who Changed the Heart of the City: The Untold Story of: the City Rescue Mission Movement by Delores T. Burger

Published by Kregel Publications, a division of Kregel, Inc. P.O. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI 49501

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Association of Gospel Rescue Missions

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INTRODUCTION

Biblical Principles "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind " This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: "Love your neighbor as yourself " All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40 NIV). As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children (I Thessalonians 2:6-7 NIV).

In a world that is filled with evil, fear, and hate, how do we as Christians respond? As we enter the twenty-first century, we can look back to a time when Christians responded in a dynamic way to desperate social and spiritual conditions. The Good Samaritan call was ____________.

People were responding not just in preaching and teaching but in going to the bowels of the city, loving the unlovely and bringing the ____________in ____________and ____________to the alcoholic, the prostitute, the broken and the forgotten.

First a stream, then a river; hundreds of people from ____________walks of life became part of a great movement of God committed to changing the ____________of the ____________. The movement became known as the rescue mission movement. From a small beginning it has grown to a movement that today is in almost every city of size in America, with a companion city mission movement in many of the great cities of the world.

Throughout history rescue missions have been founded and operated by unlikely people. Jerry McAuley was a converted alcoholic ex-con. with little education. Some founders were socialites and pastors, some were society's misfits, and, to the surprise of even many in the movement today, many were women.

In some cases these women were the unsung heroes, working with their husbands who got much of the credit and fame. But more than that, these women were the ____________ of this great movement. Steve Burger, Executive Director AGRM formerly the IUGM

CHAPTER 1 - Overcome Evil With Good

Biblical Principle Love must he sincere. Hate what is evil: cling to what is good ...D not he overcome by evil but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:9,21 NIV).

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us ... let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and truth (I John 3:16, 18 NIV).

Summary Statement In every century there is a struggle between good and evil, between God and the Devil! We cannot understand evil without understanding sin (Page 21).

What should we cling to?

Is there more or less evil in the world today?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 21 [David] Often did I try to improve conduct; but as often did I find that, as the leopard cannot its spots, no more can they who have been accustomed to do evil learn to do ____________. By continuing to ____________the Scriptures, I found One, even ____________, who could deliver not only from the punishment, but from the ____________ of sin. Page 23 Few matches have been more equal, and seldom has more depended on such equality... She [Frances] was truly a helpmate to her husband, with a heart as ____________and a zeal as ardent as ____________had himself Her Christian virtue and ____________courage did not fail.

2. Answer these questions. Page 23 When and where was the first City Mission founded? ____________ Page 30 What was the name of the missions for women? F ____________

R ____________M ____________, F ____________and F ____________M

3. Write or tell. Was the First City Mission Report a prophecy? What was the results of David and Frances's American trip?

CHAPTER 2 -Out Of The Miry Clay

Biblical Principle I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord (Psalm 40:1 KJV).

Summary Statement [Maria and Jerry] were rescued, and they established the first rescue mission founded by individuals who had been lifted up out of the miry clay (Page36).

Who can bring us up out of a "horrible pit?" Are there some people God cannot change?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 52 [Maria] I was once a poor homeless drunkard. I had no God and no hope, no home and no friends; and I ____________unto God and He ____________my prayer, and He put hope into my life. Page 38 [Jerry] I'd been in prison five years ... I wanted to be ____________.... I knelt there and ____________ between the times I prayed..."God be merciful to me a ____________," came from my lips.

2. Answer these questions. Page 56 What did Jerry and Maria need before they could get married? Christian F ____________ to know what L ____________ is, C ____________, to become R ____________ Page45 In Jerry's vision, who washed the people on the outside?

Who washed the people on the inside? Who said? "Do it for one if you can't do it for more." ____________ What was on the sign? The H ____________H ____________for M ____________

3. Write or tell. Compare Jerry's ups and downs to Maria's steady path of heart and life change.

CHAPTER 3 - Perfect Love Drives Out Fear

Biblical Principle God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4:16-18 NIV).

Summery Statement Wealthy non-Christians are often generous to rescue ministries to the poor. For a few, when they meet the poor face-to-face, they meet the Savior in a powerful way (Page 60).

How is love made complete? What is perfect love?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 60 Emma and Sidney Whittemore kneeled at the little mission's altar with ____________ and prostitutes on both sides ...Today ____________there are many ministries that were ____________ by this compassionate, courageous, ____________ women. When she left her comfort zone, ____________whispered to her heart, "Perfect love drives out ____________." Page 65 [Emma] Oh worker, turn a ____________ear to the insults! Be blind to the scornful look! Penetrate behind them all into the sinners hearts! They may be desperately ____________ but extend to them unceasingly the message of ____________, even if it should be seemingly rejected. If communicated continually in God-given ____________, those poor bruised victims will perceive the Christ- ____________ persistency and they will find the ____________of ____________from their sinful paths.

2. Answer this question. Page 64 What did the Holy Spirit cause Emma to remember? W ____________God all things are ____________ Who taught Emma how to work with girls and women?

3. Write or tell. Explain how God worked in the heart of Emma as found on pages 62-69.

CHAPTER 4 -Let Your Light Shine

Biblical Principles Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your father in heaven. Matthew 5:16 NIV A light shining in a dark place (2 Peter 1:19 NIV). The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised (Luke 4-18 KJV). For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was in prison and you came to visit me (Matthew 25:35-36 NIV). Summery Statement God often calls leaders when they are young. Others see their good deeds and their light shines. However, sometimes they cause controversy (Page 83).

Why should we let our light shine? What are good deeds?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 76 She was a ____________girl whose heart for the ____________went far beyond New York. She became a national leader in ____________ ministry. Page 82 ... she was that "light ____________ in a dark place." Page 81 Clemme used her position and prestige to promote ____________. Her theme was No ____________ but ____________. No ____________but

2. Complete these quotes. Page 80 "The rescue mission is truly the _____________...By the grace of God, it is able not only to put a new suit on a man, but much more important, to put a ____________ ____________in the ____________"

3. Write or tell. Research Anne Hutchinson. Compare your views with Anne's and Clemme's on women in ministry.

CHAPTER 5 -Home Missionary

Biblical Principle For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hash chosen the, foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (I Corinthians 1:26-27 KJV).

Summery Statement The people some would call weak and handicapped have been some of our most able and productive workers in rescue (Page 86).

What is a calling? ____________Why does God choose the weak?

1 .Fill in these blanks. Page 87 Fanny J. Crosby, writer of over ____________ Thousand poems and hymns ... What could a ____________senior citizen do to be salt and light ... Fanny went into the ____________ halls And would ____________ ____________out the worst smelling man and ____________ next to him. She ____________this conversational evangelism. Rescue the perishing, Care for the d ____________ Snatch them from pity from sin and the grave; W ____________o'er the erring one, L ____________up the fallen, T ____________them of J ____________, the mighty to save.

2. Answer these questions. Page 88 What did Fanny have to offer? Her I ____________, her h ____________, her m ____________care. Page 89 Was she ever in deep depression? ____________ Page 90 How long was she in mission work?

3. Write or tell. What advice did Fanny give others? What were the circumstances that led to the writing of Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior, Rescue the Perishing, Give Me Jesus, Hold Thou My Hand

CHAPTER 6 -God Is Love

Biblical Principle God is love (1 John 4:16 NIV).

Key Statement "A few signs painted on the walls. One of them, centered halfway across the front, read GOD IS LOVE .... Night after night thieves, harlots and alcoholics were loosed from Satan's chains and wooed through the Clarke's ministry into the loving heart of God" (Carl F. H. Henry Page 91).

Is the Bible verse "God is love" hard or easy to understand?

1. Fill in these blanks. [Sarah] Page 92 ... a friend asked me if I would "give my heart to ____________" I then and there said I would, which was the ____________ of my Christian life. Page 93 I joined with others in starting a ____________Sunday school. Page 94 She realized ____________ was needed than visiting families and conducting the weekly mission Sunday school. Something had to be done for desperate ____________ and ____________ who roamed the streets. [George] "Oh God you know I ____________you and I want to do what is good ... You know what a mess I make of preaching and how my ____________aches for the miserable people dear Sarah wants to reach. Show me, oh Lord, what must I ____________and ____________me the power.

2. Answer these questions. Page 95 Who suggested, "strike out `beer' and add the word mission?" ____________ Who was the great heart of love that moved [the missions] hands? _____________ Who produces the radio program "Unshackled"?

3. Write or tell. In chronological order list the heart change events in Sarah and George.

CHAPTER 7 -Rescue Us From the Present Evil

Biblical Principles Christ, gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil (Galatians 1:3-4 NIV).

All over this world this gospel is hearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all it's truth (Colossians 1:3-4 NIV).

Key Statements Eva lived in an evil time and yet was rescued, and she rescued and inspired others. The few women who joined her lived together, and they gave their money away, learning to live by faith, following Jesus (Page 99).

Where is the gospel growing?

Is the present evil internal or external?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 98 When I was ____________...It pleased the Lord to reveal Himself to me in a sudden and remarkable way, so that I was ____________ in a moment from an ____________ without knowledge of salvation into a follower of Christ. At the same ____________He who is love poured into my heart a deep love for the ____________and ____________ones, and gave me a vivid impression of the great ____________. Page 99 The ____________ women who joined her ... grew in number to ____________hundred single women for ministry. ..Eva opened rescue ____________...her deaconesses became hospital ____________and foreign missionaries.

2. Answer these questions. Page 98 Where did Eva live? Page 99 Where is the precedent for this kind of ministry found? In the ____________ ____________. Romans

3. Write or tell. Compare the currant vision of the women in India with Eva's. Has the Lord given you a vision?

CHAPTER 8 -Rescue the Poor Who Cry For Help

Biblical Principle I rescued the poor who cried for help (Job 29:12 NIV).

Key Statement God knows the change of governments, boundaries, countries and economies. In His great love He sees the needs of the poor and provides great, godly leaders. He is now preparing and calling many to do rescue work in new locations (Page 104).

Why does it seem at times that God has forgotten the poor?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 102 Some chose prostitution as a way of ____________; others had, like her, sister become pregnant but didn't have a ____________ who stood with them. They were branded as ____________ women and thrown ____________ of the families, the churches, and the community. Annie didn't see them as ____________, and with a mother's heart she became committed to ____________these women. Page 103 She did her rescue work at midnight, and ... formed the ____________Rescue Association, using the mission's facilities.

2. Answer these questions. Page 102 Where did Annie as a teenager profess Christ as her Savior? ____________Page 103 In what country was she the first Protestant women to hold the position of General Superintendent? ____________ What did she guide the Mission's programs through? S ____________D ____________

3. Write or tell. How has the changes in government, war and the economy affected the needs of the poor? Tell about one person who is helping people with needs.

CHAPTER 9 -Undivided Devotion

Biblical Principles: An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs - how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world - how he can please his wife - and his interests are divided. An unmarried women ... is concerned about the Lord's affair: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord ... But a married women is concerned with the things of this world - how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:32-35 NIV). Summery Statement The apostle Paul talks about being single as an advantage to serving God, especially during difficult times. Historically, groups of men and women have remained single in both Catholic and Protestant traditions (Page 106).

What is undivided devotion?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 108 Single women are in the forefront today in starting ____________ and ____________ shelters ... They are ____________the ____________ones willing to ____________ in inner city shelters ... If God is ____________you, don't let others talk you out of ____________plan for your ____________

2. Answer these questions. Page 107 What are two of the reasons single women often go beyond the call of duty? D ____________and A 3. Write or tell. Are you aware of a group of single Protestant women who live together serving the poor'? If yes, tell about why they were formed and what they do today. If no, tell why you think there should or should not be such a group.

CHAPTER 10 -A Mother's Prayer: She Never Gave Up

Biblical Principle She kept on praying to the Lord (I Samuel 1:12 NIV).

Summery Statement the power of a mother's prayers that blends her love with the love of God reaches deep and long into a heart. Mothers of prodigals, take courage! Many prayers have been

answered (Page 110)!

Why do we give up and stop praying for prodigals?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 110 Emily had such a ____________ life married to William because he was a habitual ____________. Page 111 [Her son] Mel was following in the footsteps of his ____________. The whiskey and gambling took hold on ____________, and for long periods of time he was gone ... no matter how far he went or how deeply he got into ____________, he carried his mother's ____________in his

2. Answer these questions. Page 111 How many missions did Mel help start? ____________Page 112 Who was Mel's other mother?

3. Write or tell. Compare your life to Emily's, Mel's or the lost sheep. Is there someone who keeps you in his or her prayers? If yes, who?

CHAPTER 11 - Compassion

Biblical Principle When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd (Matthew 9:36 NIV).

Summery Statement There is an acute need for volunteers who can give that extra measure of love, and who can mother and mentor today's "outcast." ... The number of volunteers must grow if we are going to see the results we desire The compassion we show today as we volunteer will bear fruit for years to come (Page 118).

Why did Jesus have compassion on the crowds?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 115 Because she spent so much time in intercessory ____________and her compassion was so Christ like, Maude Benton was "always ____________some mother's son or daughter into the ____________of Jesus." many whom others for a long time had given up on. She could see ____________ for them. Page 116 [She] served as ____________, clerk and ____________

2. Answer these questions. Page 117 What did Bill carry in place of carrying a gun? ____________ ____________of ____________. Page 118 Why did Claude Mofatt wander into the mission? Because he was ____________ and ____________. How many churches were planted under his leadership? ____________one ____________

3. Write or tell. How did Maude touch the life of Bill Stiles? Why was Maude and so many other rescue workers called, "Mother"?

CHAPTER 12 -Willing Wife, Willing Widow

Biblical Principles Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may he matched by your completion of it, according to your means (2 Corinthians 8:11 NIV).

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried (I Corinthians 7:8 NIV).

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me (Psalm 51:12 NIV).

Summery Statement God can use each part of our lives and our husbands' lives to prepare us for His service if we become widows.

Why do some widows get mad at God and others have joy?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 122 ____________ was born into a prosperous family ... ____________ was born into poverty ... ____________learned leadership and organizational skills at her church learned how to play baseball it took him out of poverty and into fame ... ____________ was led to the Lord by her sixteen-year old Sunday school teacher ... ____________was saved at the Pacific Garden Mission. They met in ____________Page 123 [Helen] I put my head on Billy's forearm as he lay there dead, and said, "Lord if there's anything left in this world for me to do

2. Answer these questions. Page 124 Who said to Billy [Sunday], "Young man, God loves you. Jesus died for you, and He wants you to love Him and give your heart to Him"? Page 122 Who was the most famous evangelist Dwight Moody and Billy Graham? ____________

3. Write or tell. . Use the method Helen did on page 124 and list what you are thankful for.

CHAPTER 13 -Madams and Pimps

Biblical Principle Then said Jesus ... If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it (Matthew 16:24-25 KJV).

Summery Statement She denied self, gave up her comfortable lifestyle, and started to follow Jesus to the most hurting people. Satan was on the run. The same light that shone in their home in the mission -- those old halls of prostitution -- still shines on the streets today where the power of God's love still draws the Christian worker to the sinner waiting to be rescued (Page 133).

How do we deny ourselves?

In what ways does denying yourself go against modem thought?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 130 [A young prostitute said] "No women was ever ____________than I am, but my little baby was pure and I want her buried like any other good baby, with a ____________sermon. Do you think Mr. Bulkley would preach a funeral sermon over my baby?" " ____________he would be glad to," answered Mrs. Bulkley. Page 131 So, after the funeral, Annie Chambers crept down the stairway to her own memories of ____________years as a " ____________" of the red light ... The strange funeral of the babe in the harlot's house rang in her ears. She began to ____________the doings of Bulkley and his wife. Page 132 She wished to deed ____________property to them for the mission.

Answer this question. Page 133 Where have many rescue ministries started?

3. Write or tell. How does Annie's gift relate to pages 32 and 33?

CHAPTER 14 -Be Strong and Courageous

Biblical Principles Be strong and courageous ... God goes with you; he will never leave you or forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6 KJV)

Teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live... Then they can train the younger women (Titus 2:3-4 NIV).

Summery Statement Over the years Mabel Eberhardt's credentials developed as a trainer of young women. She lived a reverent life; she knew and lived the Word. All her children became Christians. She and her husband, married for forty-seven years, were partners in rescue work for forty-one years. She became an expert on how to mix family and ministry and not lose her own children (Page 137).

Why do we need to be strong and courageous?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 136 [Delores Burger] The race riots of the 1960s had already killed four people in our town. The mission where Steve and I ____________ with our five year old son stood in the middle. The white neighborhood was on one side, the black neighborhood on the other. There were ____________holes in the side of the mission. Where would ____________be? Right there, where His ____________could heal the ____________ ... I was discouraged, tired and weary. Mabel Eberhardt, who was ____________, wise, and loving, befriended me and took me under her motherly wing.... That felt good, and I knew I could ____________ her. ... For years, she mailed us ____________of encouragement.

2. Answer these questions. Page 137 What became Mabel's first priority? ____________ ____________What gripped her heart? ____________ God worked in her heart using what Scripture? ____________

3. Write or tell. How & where did Scripture work in Mable's life?

CHAPTER 15 -Father to the Fatherless

Biblical Principles A father to the fatherless (Psalm 68:5 NIV).

My God will meet all your needs (Philippians 4:19 RSV).

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me (Matthew 25:40, KJV).

Summery Statement Many children are fatherless. Their fathers have died of illness, were killed, are in prison or abandoned them. They will go to sleep tonight, wondering, "Why? Why me?" ... God in His great love rescued many fatherless children who learned to put their hurts in the hands of God (Page 139).

Have you ever felt fatherless?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 140 Marie knew her heavenly Father ____________loved her. If she was the ____________ little girl on earth, He would have sent His son, Jesus, to die for her. Perfect love had come into her hurting ____________. She put her little hand of ____________ into her heavenly Father's ____________, and He led her to ____________ ____________Page ____________142 ____________[Debbie] ____________came ____________to the ____________ hungry, hurting, and alone. Her father was in ____________; her mother was ____________. When Debbie heard that Jesus loved her she cried big tears. "Dear Jesus come into my heart," she sobbed. [Marie] put her arm around her and assured her that Jesus had come ____________. Two days latter little eleven year old Debbie was raped and killed by her mother's ____________boyfriend.

2. Answer this question. Page 140 Who raised Marie?

3. Write or tell. How did Marie's childhood prepare her for the work of rescue? Why do you think God didn't protect Debbie? I low do you think Marie was able to continue alter the murder?

CHAPTER 16 -For Such a Time As This

Biblical Principle For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance ... will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14, NIV). Summery Statement Where we are born and where we are "born again" can be part of God using us for a critical task for a critical time.

Do we know when God is using us in a special way to change the heart of the city?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 144 S ____________A ____________apartheid laws forced separation of the races into separate townships for black, colored, Indian and white. ____________ and buildings, including the mission, were bulldozed ____________. Forced to leave district 6 and find a new home was Susan E. Benjamin, who had been converted years earlier " ____________" as she was known, asked the ____________ missionaries to hold meetings in her home. That was the beginning of a ____________concept of ministry that swept through the townships. God used this simple women to perform a critical task at a critical ____________, which helped keep the mission ____________, "for such a ____________as this."

2. Answer these questions. Page 144 What were Susan and her husband? ____________ ____________What were her steps of victory? R ____________3:23, 1 J ____________ 1:9, R ____________ 5:8, J ____________ ____________1:12

3. Write or tell. Why do you think God used Susan?

CHAPTER 17 -From Generation To Generation

Biblical Principle I praised and honored him that liveth foreever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is ,from generation to generation (Daniel 4:34 KJV).

Summery Statement We can live committed lives of courage, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience ...And over all these virtues put on love ... (Colossians 3:12-14, NIV). Then we can look forward with joy knowing that, from generation to generation, in cities around the world, women and men have obeyed God's commands of love (Page 151).

How does this book demonstrate from generation to generation changed hearts change the heart of the city one heart at a time?

1. Fill in these blanks. Page 149 Prayer was [Estelle's] greatest contribution to the ____________work ... she knew well the battle between ____________and ____________within the human

2. Answer these questions. Page 150 How was Frances and Estelle equal to their husbands? L ____________for the ____________ ____________, and ____________. What did David and Cliff proclaim? `B ____________for the ____________of ____________ ____________" What was the foundation of the twenty-missions that have their roots ____________in ____________the ____________Phillip's ____________story? ____________W ____________ ____________of ____________, transformed ____________, and the ____________ of Estelle and Cliff.

3. Write or tell. Charles Colson wrote, "This book ... should encourage, inspire, and provide a powerful apologetic to a secular society on the importance of the Christian faith lived out by caring people." Why do you agree or disagree with Colson's statement? Where and how is God changing the heart of your city?

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