Rachel Saint had many choices throughout her life. God led her in every single choice of her life. When she was not sure what path to take he showed her the way. The leading of God started way before she was born.
Rachel’s father was a poor artist from a poor home. He wanted to become a famous artist someday. Eventually he moved to Philadelphia and started to volunteer in a mission school. It was while he was here at the mission that he met a well-to-do girl who was also volunteering her time. “It was the classic tale of a struggling, penniless young artist and a rich beautiful young woman falling in love with each other….” Lawrence Saint and Kathrine Procter were married. They had eight children, seven boys and one girl. Lawrence …show more content…
Parmelee asked her something very important. “If you will be my companion and help me with the light duties, I will make you my heiress.” Rachel had a choice to make. She thought of the childhood that she grew up in and how all that money could help her family. She thought about it and had one choice. “Would she take the million-dollar inheritance ad the opportunity to travel in style or would she choose the unknown? Would she head out into the world with the love of her family but very little in the way of financial support?” One morning, very early, she went out to the deck and stood there thinking about her decision. As she was standing there, it was as though she as a vision. She was not on a ship anymore, “but was in a jungle clearing, looking at a group of brown-skinned, half-naked people.” These people in the vision would help her make her decision. She would decline the offer of heiress and then she would find some way to someday get to “her people” who were beckoning for her to come.
That decision would start her on a path toward those people. The first stop on that path was Bible College. At the age of 20 she enrolled in Philadelphia College of Bible. During college her mind stayed focused on the “group of brown-skinned people in a jungle.” After she graduated she applied to be a missionary, but was turned down because of her weak back. She was angry about that decision, until she thought that maybe the reason that she was declined was because God was still preparing her people for her. She just continued to follow God wherever he would lead, until God had prepared it just for
Rachel’s father was a poor artist from a poor home. He wanted to become a famous artist someday. Eventually he moved to Philadelphia and started to volunteer in a mission school. It was while he was here at the mission that he met a well-to-do girl who was also volunteering her time. “It was the classic tale of a struggling, penniless young artist and a rich beautiful young woman falling in love with each other….” Lawrence Saint and Kathrine Procter were married. They had eight children, seven boys and one girl. Lawrence …show more content…
Parmelee asked her something very important. “If you will be my companion and help me with the light duties, I will make you my heiress.” Rachel had a choice to make. She thought of the childhood that she grew up in and how all that money could help her family. She thought about it and had one choice. “Would she take the million-dollar inheritance ad the opportunity to travel in style or would she choose the unknown? Would she head out into the world with the love of her family but very little in the way of financial support?” One morning, very early, she went out to the deck and stood there thinking about her decision. As she was standing there, it was as though she as a vision. She was not on a ship anymore, “but was in a jungle clearing, looking at a group of brown-skinned, half-naked people.” These people in the vision would help her make her decision. She would decline the offer of heiress and then she would find some way to someday get to “her people” who were beckoning for her to come.
That decision would start her on a path toward those people. The first stop on that path was Bible College. At the age of 20 she enrolled in Philadelphia College of Bible. During college her mind stayed focused on the “group of brown-skinned people in a jungle.” After she graduated she applied to be a missionary, but was turned down because of her weak back. She was angry about that decision, until she thought that maybe the reason that she was declined was because God was still preparing her people for her. She just continued to follow God wherever he would lead, until God had prepared it just for