The Coming Day
a true Christmas story from China
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For Gwa-gwa it was a winter like most others in her young life. A winter to be hungry, alone and very, very cold. When she was just a baby, Gwa-gwa’s parents who lived up in the mountains of Mongolia had sold her to a rich woman in the town of Spring-of-Wine because they could not afford to look after her. But the rich woman who bought her did not love Gwa-gwa; in fact she was very cruel to her when she discovered that Gwa-gwa could neither hear nor speak. “She’s no use to me,” the woman said. “Bad enough that she’s a girl, but a deaf-and-dumb one? What good is she? She’ll just have to beg.”
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About the Book
It was a very cold winter in northwest China when a little beggar girl who could neither hear nor speak followed a rag-tag line of children into a large white tent. She fixed her eyes on the woman who was speaking and the bright colored pictures she showed. Gwa-gwa, whose name means “Little Lonely” could not know that one of those pictures was to change her life.
Gwa-gwa is a real person; the missionaries are real, as are many of the details of the story. When at last she comes to a real home on Christmas Day, a day she afterward called her “coming” day, Gwa-gwa found some answers to the questions she couldn’t even ask. What did the picture mean? Who was the Baby? And what did it have to do with her?
About the Author
Serving as a missionary in Asia fed Alice Poynor’s long-standing passion for missionary stories, especially those from China. Besides writing for young readers, Alice enjoys writing Bible studies, teaching Bible, hiking, and playing Scrabble. She and her husband live in Columbia South Carolina. They have three sons and two grandsons.