Tethered: The Life of Henrietta Hall Shuck, the First American Woman Missionary to China

By Brenda H. Cox, PhD

Description:

Based on a true story, Tethered tells the story of Henrietta Hall Shuck who travels 19,000 miles with her husband Lewis to become a woman of firsts: the first American Woman missionary to China, the first Western woman to reside in Hong Kong, the first to educate Chinese girls, and all during the turmoil of The First Opium War. She endures illness, poverty, robbers, and oppressive climate to establish the first Baptist mission in the Chinese Empire with her husband and to discover God’s will for her life.

Book Takeaway:

The most important mission in life is to understand our relationship to God as his child and to persevere in whatever circumstance God brings to us.

Why the author wrote this book:

I wrote Tethered because Henrietta was a remarkable young woman who gave her life to missions and because she is my husband's third great-grandmother.