• “He will enable you to overcome the giants in your temperament …He allows adversity and trial in our lives in order to reveal our true nature to us. Thus He humbles us and breaks us, so that He can transform us into His likeness.” – Annie Poonen

Loretta Mae Judd

LORETTA  MAE  JUDD  was  born  April  11, 1880, in  Hardin County, Ohio,  the  only  daughter   of   Mr .   and  Mrs.   Samuel   Shockey.   At  the  age  of   six  she  moved  to  Iowa  where  she  l ived  for   the  following eight   years.

At  thirteen,   she  began  to  write  for   papers  and  per iodicals,   in  addi t ion  to  newspaper   repor t ing.   A  year   later ,   in  San  Diego,   Cal i for -nia,   she  cont inued  her   wr i t ing,   together   wi th  the  fur ther   study  of  shor thand  and  business  subjects.

Her  f i rst  spi r i tual  awakening came when she at tended revival  meetings in  a  Methodist Church  in San Diego.   After  this  exper ience,   she fel t   that   God  wanted  her   to  consecrate  her   ambi t ion  to  be  a  wr i ter .  Because  of  this  she  took  al l  her  wr i t inlgs  and  newspaper   ar t icles  and burned  them.

At  nineteen,   she  moved  to  Chicago,   br inging  her   sick  mother   to John  Alexander   Dowie  for   prayer ,   at   which  t ime  she  took  a  secretar ial   posi t ion  in  Dr .   Dowie’s  of f ice.   Eventual ly  she  became  pr ivate secretary  to  one  of   Dr .   Dowie’s  leading  executives,   H.   Wor thington Judd,   to  whom  she  was  mar r ied  in  1905.   To  this  union  was  born  a daughter ,   Mary  Elizabeth.

In  1903  she  had  been  appointed  principal   of   the  business  department   of  Zion Educational  Inst i tut ions.   Af ter   her   mar riage,   she  continued  teaching,   establishing  two  pr ivate  busi1wss  schools  in  Zion Ci ty  and Waukegan,   I l l inois.

In 1911  she was  born again wi th the  resul t  that   she  was  cal led into the  minist ry.   Wi th  unt i r ing  devot ion  to  her   cal l ing,   she  has  been  a fai thful ,   valiant   “soldier   of  the  cross”   since  that   t ime,   remaining  in act ive service unt i l  her  accident   la,st  fal l .   Her  death  on May  31,   1959,  consummated  a  l i fe  of   consecrated  dedicat ion  to  the  wi l l   of   God.

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