LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS (ANS) — She tells the story of a vanished period in China’s history, when intrepid missionaries like her grandparents braved primitive and largely lawless conditions to get out the gospel. She also reminisces about a very special girlhood friend – Ruth Bell Graham.
“My grandparents recruited the Bells for China,” says Mary Graham Reid, 85. Her grandparents, James and Sophie Graham, (no relation to Rev. Billy Graham) left Virginia in 1889 as newlyweds to serve as pioneer missionaries to China. This inspiring story is recounted in her book “Boxers to Bandits,” co-authored with Stephen Fortosis. (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association).