2. Timeline
• William Tyndale 1494 – 1536
• John Wesley 1703 – 1791
• George Mueller 1805 – 1898
• Amy Carmichael 1867 - 1951
3. Child
As a child George Mueller was:
• A liar
• A stealer
• A gambler
• He stole from his own Father
4. Teenage years
• George Mueller’s Mother died when he was 14 years old
and so his Father looked after him.
• He ended up in jail aged 16
• After George’s Father paid to have him released from jail
he decided he was going to send George to University to
learn to work in a church as a clergyman
• Through university George was very naughty and stole
money and gambled
• He would go and stay in fancy motels and then escape
out the window and not pay
5. Friend
• George had a friend who was a christian and he invited
George to a bible study, after a bible study George
believed in God
6. God Opened his eyes
• After graduating from university George started his orphan
ministry
• He only had 50 cents but God turned that into 75,000,000
pounds through prayer alone
• George never asked anyone for anything or told anyone
what the needs were for the orphans – he only told God!
• There were times when there was no food – so George
Mueller prayed and God provided
• One day all the children stood around tables set with
plates but no food and George Mueller said grace and
thanked God for the food and….
7. God opened his eyes……
• There was a knock on the door – a baker couldn’t sleep
as he thought the orphans would need some bread for
breakfast
• Another day again George Mueller thanked God for the
food and there was a knock at the door – a milkman’s cart
had a broken wheel and he wanted to give the orphans
the milk as he needed to unload the cart to fix the wheel
• God is good!
9. A life of prayer……
• Mueller's faith in God strengthened day by day and he
spent hours in daily prayer and Bible reading.- indeed, it
was his practice, in later years, to read through the entire
Bible four times a year
• George Mueller kept a diary of
• What he was praying for and asked
• God for 50,000 requests, 5,000
• Were answered on the same day!
• He prayed for 5 friends to become
• Christians and the last friend did
• At his funeral!
12. Highlights
• George started 117 schools which educated over 120,000
children and orphans
• He started 5 orphanages which had taken care of 10,000
orphans
• He had given away 282,000 bibles and 1,500,000 New
Testaments and 112,000,000 tracts and pamphlets
• He pastored churches/gave money to missionaries including
well-known missionary Hudson Taylor
• When George Mueller turned 70 he felt he should travel and
preach all around the world (travelling 200,000 kilometres by
boat) and he did this for 17 years
• He was one of the founding members of the Brethren Church
• Most importantly he was known as a ‘man of prayer’
13. Today
• Fostering children into homes was seen as the best option
so the orphanages were closed down
• Mueller Foundation opened day care centres
• Old Folk Homes (some of the oldies in them were in the
orphanages)
• Money is given to missionaries
• In 1998 (100 years after his death) the organisation that
he started gave over $400,000 to missionaries!
Editor's Notes
Müller prayed about everything and expected each prayer to be answered. One example was when one of the orphan house's boiler stopped working; Müller needed to have it fixed. Now this was a problem, because the boiler was bricked up and the weather was worsening with each day. So he prayed for two things; firstly that the workers he had hired would have a mind to work throughout the night, and secondly that the weather would let up. On the Tuesday before the work was due to commence, a bitter north wind still blew but in the morning, before the workmen arrived, a southerly wind began to blow and it was so mild that no fires were needed to heat the buildings. That evening, the foreman of the contracted company attended the site to see how he might speed things along, and instructed the men to report back first thing in the morning to make an early resumption of work. The team leader stated that they would prefer to work through the night. The job was done in 30 hours. [24] In 1862, it was discovered that one of the drains was blocked. Being some 11 feet underground, workmen were unable to find the blockage despite several attempts. Müller prayed about the situation and the workman at once found the site of the problem. [25] [26]
Once, whilst crossing the Atlantic on the SS Sardinian in August 1877, his ship ran into thick fog. He explained to the captain that he needed to be in Quebec by the following afternoon, but Captain Joseph E Dutton (later known as "Holy Joe") said that he was slowing the ship down for safety and Müller's appointment would have to be missed. Müller asked to use the chartroom to pray for the lifting of the fog. The captain followed him down, claiming it would be a waste of time. After Müller prayed, the captain started to pray, but Müller stopped him; partly because of the captain's unbelief, but mainly because he believed the prayer had already been answered. When the two men went back to the bridge, they found the fog had lifted. The captain became a Christian shortly afterwards. [28]
