This year for the project fair, I chose to talk about George Mueller. Not many people know about him, and not many people today believe in miracles. But God still does work miracles today.
My display board
Facts about George Mueller
Me presenting
Me in front of my display board
My Essay:
“Many Christians today say that they depend on God to supply all their needs. But what if we didn’t take money for our jobs? What if we trusted God to give us food every day? Imagine a man who was a preacher but didn’t take a fee from his congregation. A man who ran six orphan houses. A man who trusted God to supply all the meals and money he needed for 2000 orphans at a time. Imagine a man who did all this without telling anybody except God what his needs were. There was really a man like that, and his name was George Mueller.
George Mueller was born German. He was badly behaved when he was young. He stole and drank. Once when he needed money, he pretended someone had stolen all his money that his father had given him. His friends were sympathetic and gave him lots of money, more than he had wanted to get. A few times he went to jail for not paying rent at some hotels.
When George was a young man, he went to a university. He became friends with another young man named Beta. Beta was a Christian and every Saturday night went to a Christian meeting. One night George asked Beta if he could go along. He thought that it would make a great story to tell his friends. But at the meeting, after they had prayed, George didn’t want to say anything funny about the meeting anymore. He kept going back to the meetings, and he soon became a Christian.
Becoming a Christian changed his life. His father had paid for all his schooling before, and George felt bad about this. He told his father that he wanted to pay for his school by himself, and his father readily agreed to this. Now he had a problem. He had to pay for his schooling, but he didn’t have any money. George thought it was a childish idea, but he got down on his knees and prayed that God would send him some money. After he had finished praying, there was a knock at his door. It was one of the school professors, and he had two young gentlemen with him. The professor explained that these two young men were from America, and they needed to learn German. He asked George to teach the young men German. They agreed to pay George a lot of money, more than a normal tutor would have been paid. This provided the money that George needed to pay for his schooling.
George realized that God could be trusted to supply all his needs, and he depended on God for all of his needs for the rest of his life. He never again borrowed or asked for a single penny. In fact, he actually told the people in his church not to pay him any fee for preaching. He prayed for all the things he needed, and God would always send them.
George met a woman named Mary, and he married her. They moved to Bristol, England, and there were many orphans living on the streets. George and Mary wanted to help the orphans. So George asked God to help him find a good place for an orphanage. Soon he had a good building for the orphanage. It was for girls from ages 7 to 12. On opening day, George expected to have children flocking to the orphanage, but none came. Then he remembered that he never prayed for children! So George quickly prayed, and the children started flocking to the orphanage only a few minutes after he prayed.
After a while George needed a new and bigger orphanage because the people in Bristol complained that the children were too loud. George prayed that he would be able to build a new orphanage. He never told anyone about any one of his needs. He only told God, and people would come to the door and give him money. Soon he was able to buy a piece of land called Ashley Down and built several new orphanages for boys and girls. These could hold 2000 children at a time. George never told anyone but God how much money he needed to pay for food or any other things. God would always fix the problems.
One day at breakfast time the children were sitting at the table, and there was nothing for them to eat. George wasn’t worried! He said that they needed to pray, and God would supply something to eat. George prayed and no sooner than he had finished there was a knock at the door, and there was the baker. He said, “I couldn’t sleep last night because I thought you needed food. So I baked you some bread.” After the baker left, the milkman knocked at the door and said, “My cart broke down, and I can’t fix it with all the weight of the milk on it. Could you use any?”
Another miracle happened one winter when one of the boilers was broken. The workmen said that it would take a few days to fix it. The orphans could have frozen, but George believed that God could do a miracle. George asked God to change the direction of the wind, and to make the workmen want to work late into the night. The next day a warm south wind came in through the window instead of the expected north wind. Not only that, but the workers said they would like to stay up all night and fix the boiler instead of going to bed! Everyone stayed warm and they didn’t even have to light any fires.
Then something terrible happened. Mary died. Many people mourned for her. She had been like a mother to many orphans.
Years later, George married another woman named Susanna. George and Susanna decided to go on a preaching trip. They actually ended up going on many. On one of his trips, George got stuck in the fog on a ship. He went to the captain and asked how long it would take to get to the church the next day to preach. The captain said that the fog could stay down for weeks. He said that it would be impossible to get to the town on time. George took the captain down to his room and prayed that the fog would lift. When they opened the door, the fog was gone! It hadn’t lifted by chance. God had lifted it!
But then Susanna died too. George was almost ninety years old! Soon after Susanna died, a friend suggested that George get a personal assistant. George told him to get one “the day after tomorrow.” But the next day did not come for George. At 5:00 am the next morning, George died.
George Mueller, the boy who lived a bad life as a young man, grew up to help over 120,000 orphans. In today’s money, the amount of money that George Mueller had gotten in his lifetime for the orphans would have been $180 million. He never asked any other person for money. He never even told anybody what his needs were. He only told God in prayer, and God supplied everything he needed.”
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