One of 12 children, Freda Lindsay began working in the fields of Oregon when she was 9 years old to help put food on the table. In 1932, 18-year-old Freda Schimpf attended a revival meeting in Portland. As she was making her way out the door, evangelist Gordon Lindsay stopped her and said, "Freda, I thought this would be your night."
Convicted, she rushed to the altar. "I was no big sinner, but I knew I wasn't serving the Lord," she said. "That night, I felt the Lord spoke to me and said, 'Freda, if you follow Me, obey Me, walk faithfully in pureness, you will one day marry this evangelist."
Five years later she married Gordon Lindsay.
In 1948 the Lindsays began an evangelistic ministry and publishing house called Voice of Healing, which was the precursor to Christ for the Nations.
Freda Lindsay co-founded the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), with her late husband, Gordon. The two-year Bible school has trained more than 30,000 students in the last 40 years, and has established more than 44 associate Bible schools in such nations as Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Brazil, Japan and India.
Lindsay served as president of the international ministry after the death of her husband in April 1973. CFNI's board elected her president the day after Gordon Lindsay's funeral. "She was forced into a leadership role as a woman and had the enormous debt of a new building," said her son, Dennis Lindsay, adding that within several years everything was paid for.
Lindsay was named "Christian Woman of the Year" by the Christian Broadcasting Network and in February 2009 was inducted into the International Christian Women's Hall of Fame, an organization Eddie Hyatt and his wife, Sue, operate in Tulsa, Okla. Though Lindsay stepped down as CFNI president in 1985 (succeeded by her son, Dennis), she remained active in the ministry until she retired in April 2008.
A funeral service will be held at CFNI at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1—the date Gordon Lindsay died in 1973. She is survived by sons Gilbert Lindsay and Dennis Lindsay, daughter Shira Sorko-Ram, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Read more: http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/26644-freda-lindsay-christ-for-the-nations-co-founder-dies-at-95?start=1#ixzz0jOYht1x5
Convicted, she rushed to the altar. "I was no big sinner, but I knew I wasn't serving the Lord," she said. "That night, I felt the Lord spoke to me and said, 'Freda, if you follow Me, obey Me, walk faithfully in pureness, you will one day marry this evangelist."
Five years later she married Gordon Lindsay.
In 1948 the Lindsays began an evangelistic ministry and publishing house called Voice of Healing, which was the precursor to Christ for the Nations.
Freda Lindsay co-founded the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), with her late husband, Gordon. The two-year Bible school has trained more than 30,000 students in the last 40 years, and has established more than 44 associate Bible schools in such nations as Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Brazil, Japan and India.
Lindsay served as president of the international ministry after the death of her husband in April 1973. CFNI's board elected her president the day after Gordon Lindsay's funeral. "She was forced into a leadership role as a woman and had the enormous debt of a new building," said her son, Dennis Lindsay, adding that within several years everything was paid for.
Lindsay was named "Christian Woman of the Year" by the Christian Broadcasting Network and in February 2009 was inducted into the International Christian Women's Hall of Fame, an organization Eddie Hyatt and his wife, Sue, operate in Tulsa, Okla. Though Lindsay stepped down as CFNI president in 1985 (succeeded by her son, Dennis), she remained active in the ministry until she retired in April 2008.
A funeral service will be held at CFNI at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1—the date Gordon Lindsay died in 1973. She is survived by sons Gilbert Lindsay and Dennis Lindsay, daughter Shira Sorko-Ram, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Read more: http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/26644-freda-lindsay-christ-for-the-nations-co-founder-dies-at-95?start=1#ixzz0jOYht1x5
One of 12 children, Freda Lindsay began working in the fields of Oregon when she was 9 years old to help put food on the table. In 1932, 18-year-old Freda Schimpf attended a revival meeting in Portland. As she was making her way out the door, evangelist Gordon Lindsay stopped her and said, "Freda, I thought this would be your night."
Convicted, she rushed to the altar. "I was no big sinner, but I knew I wasn't serving the Lord," she said. "That night, I felt the Lord spoke to me and said, 'Freda, if you follow Me, obey Me, walk faithfully in pureness, you will one day marry this evangelist."
Five years later she married Gordon Lindsay.
In 1948 the Lindsays began an evangelistic ministry and publishing house called Voice of Healing, which was the precursor to Christ for the Nations.
Freda Lindsay co-founded the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), with her late husband, Gordon. The two-year Bible school has trained more than 30,000 students in the last 40 years, and has established more than 44 associate Bible schools in such nations as Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Brazil, Japan and India.
Lindsay served as president of the international ministry after the death of her husband in April 1973. CFNI's board elected her president the day after Gordon Lindsay's funeral. "She was forced into a leadership role as a woman and had the enormous debt of a new building," said her son, Dennis Lindsay, adding that within several years everything was paid for.
Lindsay was named "Christian Woman of the Year" by the Christian Broadcasting Network and in February 2009 was inducted into the International Christian Women's Hall of Fame, an organization Eddie Hyatt and his wife, Sue, operate in Tulsa, Okla. Though Lindsay stepped down as CFNI president in 1985 (succeeded by her son, Dennis), she remained active in the ministry until she retired in April 2008.
A funeral service will be held at CFNI at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1—the date Gordon Lindsay died in 1973. She is survived by sons Gilbert Lindsay and Dennis Lindsay, daughter Shira Sorko-Ram, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Read more: http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/26644-freda-lindsay-christ-for-the-nations-co-founder-dies-at-95?start=1#ixzz0jOYht1x5
Convicted, she rushed to the altar. "I was no big sinner, but I knew I wasn't serving the Lord," she said. "That night, I felt the Lord spoke to me and said, 'Freda, if you follow Me, obey Me, walk faithfully in pureness, you will one day marry this evangelist."
Five years later she married Gordon Lindsay.
In 1948 the Lindsays began an evangelistic ministry and publishing house called Voice of Healing, which was the precursor to Christ for the Nations.
Freda Lindsay co-founded the Dallas-based Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), with her late husband, Gordon. The two-year Bible school has trained more than 30,000 students in the last 40 years, and has established more than 44 associate Bible schools in such nations as Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Brazil, Japan and India.
Lindsay served as president of the international ministry after the death of her husband in April 1973. CFNI's board elected her president the day after Gordon Lindsay's funeral. "She was forced into a leadership role as a woman and had the enormous debt of a new building," said her son, Dennis Lindsay, adding that within several years everything was paid for.
Lindsay was named "Christian Woman of the Year" by the Christian Broadcasting Network and in February 2009 was inducted into the International Christian Women's Hall of Fame, an organization Eddie Hyatt and his wife, Sue, operate in Tulsa, Okla. Though Lindsay stepped down as CFNI president in 1985 (succeeded by her son, Dennis), she remained active in the ministry until she retired in April 2008.
A funeral service will be held at CFNI at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1—the date Gordon Lindsay died in 1973. She is survived by sons Gilbert Lindsay and Dennis Lindsay, daughter Shira Sorko-Ram, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Read more: http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/26644-freda-lindsay-christ-for-the-nations-co-founder-dies-at-95?start=1#ixzz0jOYht1x5
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