Resources by Faith Cook

Faith Cook’s Troubled Journey narrates her early experiences as the daughter of OMF missionaries to China. Honouring the faith, courage, and self-sacrifice of her parents, she also shines a compassionate light on the family deprivations brought about by long periods of separation from them. The excerpt below is Chapter 11 of the book in question, which […]

The following is excerpted from ‘Doors of Opportunity’, which constitutes chapter 15 of Faith Cook’s Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. It sketches a period of time in which her patronage of new dissenting chapels and itinerant preachers was beginning to bear fruit. As the Countess’s chapels began to increase, so did the administrative labour of ensuring […]

The following excerpt, which witnesses to the pastoral ministry of David Dickson (1583–1663), is taken from Samuel Rutherford and His Friends, by Faith Cook. ‘FROM Irvine, being on my journey to Christ’s Palace in Aberdeen, August 4th 1636.’ So runs the inscription on a letter written by Samuel Rutherford to Robert Cunningham, another servant of […]