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Name ______discovered that God Finding Judson at a prayer meeting knows best. God had Address ______in a haystack would have surprised the best plan and God’s ______anybody, most of all Judson himself. definition of success is After all, Adoniram Judson of Malden, ______the right one. Who are you letting Massachusetts, had big plans for his guide your decisions life. He would be famous and power- You may purchase multiple copies of GC Kids (minimum 50) by ordering from about when you grow ful, and he didn’t need any help from Copy ’n Print, Box 4566, Three Hills AB T0M 2A0, CANADA up? Whose plans will God. Ph: 403-443-7041 Fax: 403-443-2120 Email: [email protected] you follow? What does Being the smartest and best came (Price for 100 copies printed, folded and mailed to USA is about US$40-$45.) Please success mean—having a indicate number and title of the issue/s you want (see front page). easy to Judson as a child. He loved to lot of money or To print multiple copies yourself, contact [email protected] for a PDF, TIFF or study. At age three he learned to JPG file from which you can print. Watch www.worldteam.org for archived issues you becoming what God may download and print. wants you to be? Think read. At age ten he studied Latin,

about it. Greek and theology. Adoniram Suggested further reading: GC Kids is a service of World Team, “Glorifying God by Copyright © 2006 learned more languages, how to tell Adoniram Judson: A Grand working together to establish reproducing churches focusing Purpose (YWAM Publishing) north, south east and west by looking on unreached peoples of the world.” “Adoniram Judson” at the stars, and he studied all he could World Team, 1431 Stuckert Rd, Warrington, PA 18976, USA www.reformedreader.org/ Ph. 215-491-4900 Fax 215-491-4910 [email protected] rbb/judson/jindex.htm about the universe. “LT” graphic by Linda Dingeldein. www.worldteam.org Portrait courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. (Not public domain.) Judson’s father, a minister, Judson discovered that E--- The Great Commission Ethiopia. encouraged him and had died in the room next to He was provided books for him to his. The news of his friend’s After died and rose reading study. “You are unusually death disturbed Judson alive again, just before He the book intelligent, Adoniram,” he’d deeply. In his grief, he went back to Heaven, He of Isaiah tell his son, “and I expect you remembered reading in his told his followers what they trying to to become a great man.” father’s that his friend were supposed to do until He find out Into his teens, Judson was had no hope of life after came back to earth again. about God, but he didn’t filled with pride and self- death because he had Look up Acts 1:8 in your understand what he read. confidence because he was rejected God. Judson Bible and write all the places Philip offered to help him, so smart. No despaired for Jesus told His disciples to go and soon the Ethiopian problem his friend and and tell people about Him. became a true follower of was so large “How can I please for his own Jesus. When he returned to that it could God?” became soul. “But you will receive power his own country he witnessed stop him Judson’s most urgent “I’ve been when the Holy Spirit comes to many people who from fulfilling looking at life question. on you; and you will be my believed in Jesus, too. They his exciting backwards,” witnesses in ______, started a church (groups of dreams. He Judson and in all ______and believers) that still exists planned to realized. ______, and to today. be somebody important, “Knowing God is more ______unlike his father, whose lack important than my success.” ______.” Think About It of imagination he scorned. That morning he acknowl- At sixteen, Judson entered edged Jesus Christ as King of One who heard this was Brown University and his life. Philip. Philip became a well- Why do you think God could graduated as the top student What a turn of events! known witness for Jesus. trust Philip to be a good in his class. There at Brown, Judson’s focus shifted as Where-ever he went in missionary to the Ethiopian he formed a strong friendship though he had been looking Jerusalem, Judea or Samaria, man? (hint: what had he with E---, a talented student at his life through the wide Philip told people about already been doing?) who shared his ambition to end of a funnel. In the wide Jesus. Crowds came to listen ______pursue political power. E--- end, he had seen his own and many people accepted ______was a skeptic; he doubted wide-sweeping, unlimited Jesus as their Savior. Philip ______that the Bible was true. He plans for accomplishment. was doing important work. believed that educated He hadn’t noticed before One day God sent an Why was just one man, the scholars should disregard that the funnel narrowed. angel to tell Philip, “Go down Ethiopian, not less important because it is too Now all he saw at the other to the Gaza desert.” Philip than the crowds Philip usually narrow. Because of E--’s end was empty pride. could have said, “But I’m witnessed to? influence, Judson became a However, Judson’s new life needed here where there are ______defiant unbeliever in God. in Christ brought a whole new a lot of people. No one lives ______In 1809, a year after the view. Through the narrow end in the desert.” Philip didn’t ______two friends graduated, E--- of the funnel he saw only say that, though. He believed and Judson happened to be Christ as the way to God. This that God knew what was If God wants you to be a guests at an inn, each helped him find God’s best best. He obeyed, and on the missionary to a few instead of unaware of the other’s for his life. desert road he saw one man, a teacher of many, will you presence. In the morning “Many are the plans in a a government official from obey? Why? Page 2 Page 5 man's heart,” Judson Not only that. Judson Crossword Puzzle: Adoniram Judson understood at last, “ but it is translated the entire Bible into the Lord’s purpose that the . He prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21). began compiling a Burmese “How can I please God?” dictionary that was became his most urgent completed after his death. He question. established sixty-three Soon Judson wanted more churches with the Burman and than anything to be a . To this day, missionary. He longed to go to believers are still found among Burma, today called those people in . Myanmar. At Williams Thousands came to Christ College, he found friends who even after Judson’s death. shared the same desire. They Why? Because Adoniram met often at the haystack and Judson committed to follow prayed earnestly that God God’s plan for his life, not his would show them his plans for own. their lives. ______On the mission field in B. J. Campbell, author of this article, calls Post Falls, ID, home. She has been to Asia Burma, Judson’s life opened on a short-term mission trip. out into thirty-eight years of Answers to the clues are in the story about Adoniram Judson. personal sacrifice among the Karen people. He starved, spent time in prison, and lost Across family members. In 1850 he 6. What Judson and his college friends did regularly at died at age 62. Pray a haystack. By his boyhood standard, success never came. Yet, in In Myan 8. To put something into another language. mar and some o 9. Judson learned to read at age ____. the wide end of Judson’s life, ther Asian coun there was more success than tries, not 11. Adoniram Judson's father was a ______. being B Judson could have imagined. uddhist is cons At the haystack, the small, idered a Down threat t fervent group didn’t have any o nation 1. Judson translated the Bible into this language. al unity. money to go and be foreign Chris tians are 2. What the nation of Burma is called now. missionaries, so they prayed for often treated 3. Someone who doubts that the Bible is true. financial support for missions. very ba dly. Will you p 4. One of the languages Adoniram Judson knew by As a result, Judson helped start ray for th Ch e age ten. the American Baptist ristians in these co 5. Adoniram worked among this tribe. Missionary Union. It still serves untries? 6. To ____ God became Judson's urgent desire. today as a channel through which Christians can send 7. The study of all things about God. support money to 10. One important morning Judson acknowledged missionaries in whatever Jesus Christ as _____ of his life. country they serve.

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