Have you, boys and girls, ever heard of George Muller?

Known as the father of the orphans,

George Muller is famous for getting all of his prayers ansewred.

Today, we are going to introduce ham through two sections and share the grace.

1. Becoming a pastor

In 1805, George Muller was born from a wealthy Christian family in Germany. Since Muller's father's job was a tax collector, there was always a lot of money in the house. And young Muller was a troublemaker who enjoyed stealing father's money and lying. Even at the age of 14, when his mother passed away, Muller went on drinking and gambling, and also getting taken to jail for robbery.

When Muller turned twenty years old, he got into a theological college, however he used his tuition to fool around with his friends and still caused a lot of trouble.

Then one day, Muller went to a prayer meeting with his friend and accepted God. From that day on, Muller confessed his sins and went to prayer meeting everyday, deciding to become a missionary. When Muller prayed that he wanted to go to missionary school not with the help of his father, but through God's support, Muller was able to earn money as a translator for the missionaries and live at a room in an orphanage for free.

Once he became a missionary, he moved to England and became a pastor of a church there and got married to a woman named Mary.

During that time period in Europe, there was a policy that forced people to pay a lot of money to sit in the front part of the church, which helped to raise money to run the church and pay the pastors. As a result, all the wealthy people got to sit in the front of the church while all the poor people sat in the back of the church. However, Muller thought that it was wrong for church to discriminate people when there is no discrimination in God's kingdom. Muller decided to remove that policy and prayed to God to meet them in their need only through his power. Through this incident many wealthy people left the church but God always supplied Muller's family with enough money and food to live and as time went on the number of people in church grew. However Muller did not stay but left to a new location that God directed, which was in Bristol.

2. Building an Orphanage.

Right as Muller was appointed as the pastor in Bristol, Cholera swept through the whole city. Everyday, the sound of the funeral bell rang all around the city and corpses filled the streets.

Withstanding the danger of the epidemic, Muller and Mary reached out to the patients and prayed for them. While serving as the pastor in Bristol, Muller had his first daughter, Lydia,and also gota call from Baghdadtocomeas a missionary.

While praying to God thinking that was God's will, Muller met a girl who was holding her baby brother on her back, begging for help.

"Please help me, my mother passed away from Cholera and my father went away to earn money"

"Here, take this money, God bless you"

Muller was heartbroken to see the orphans on the street because it reminded him of his daughter at home. God moved Muller's heart through a verse:

"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." (Psalms 68:5)

"Yes this is where I belong! If God helps me, I could save those children!"

Since then, Muller gathered all the orphans every morning and ate breakfast together and had service with them. As time went on more and more children came to Muller's house and eventually filled the house to the point where there was no more space left.

God made Muller to want to make an orphanage and when he prayed passionately God provided Muller with supplies and people that are necessary to run an orphanage. Some people brought their whole savings or volunteered to build the orphanage for free, there was even kitchen ware, children's clothes, blankets, etc provided for the orphanage.

Finally, on February third of 1836, an orphanage for thirty girls was built on Wilson Street. Later on, three more orphanages were built and provided a home for 120 children.

Writer & Illustrator : Soo-ye Park (sysop)

References :

“George Muller-The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans” written by Janet & Geoff Benge / Youth With A Mission, Korea(2006)