William Carey and his praying sister

God has assigned every Christian a place of humble service in the body of Christ. There are no exceptions. You have a function to fulfill in this body. Willam Myers in his book, Pray: How to be Effective in Prayer, tells of two remarkable people: William Carey, missionary to India, and Carey’s bedridden, almost paralyzed sister. William Carey accomplished a Bible translation of work unequaled in missionary history and has been called “the father of modern missions.” We don’t even know his sister’s name. She is mentioned only as Carey’s sister. But while Carey labored in India translating and printing parts or all of the Bible into forty languages, his sister lay on her back in London and prayed hour after hour, month after month, for all the details, problems, and struggles of her brother’s work. In telling this story of Carey and his sister, Myers asks the question, “To whose account will God credit the victories won through this remarkable man?”