Edith Schaeffer 1914–2013
Posted on March 31, 2013
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Tim Challies reports that Edith Schaeffer has died at the age of 98.
“In 1948 the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions sent the Schaeffers to Switzerland as missionaries.
In 1955, after… withdrawing from that organization, they decided to simply open up their home and make it available as a place to demonstrate God’s love and provide a forum for discussing God and the meaning of life. They called it L’Abri after the French word for “shelter.’”
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