Helen Cadbury

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Helen Cadbury was an evangelist.

Helen’s grandfather, John Cadbury, and great uncle, Benjamin Cadbury, founded Cadbury Chocolates. Helen was raised in a family of eight children, three older brothers and two older sisters.

As a 13-year-old girl in 1893 she was shy about sharing her faith and had found that using Scripture was a way of bringing her friends to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

So along with a few friends, she started a club where members promised to read some part of the Bible daily, as well as carry a small New Testament in their pockets. The emphasis was that of Read, Carry, and Share.

In 1904, Cadbury married popular gospel singer Charles McCallon Alexander. She toured with him on the evangelistic circuit as a women's worker, and they worked together to found the The Pocket Testament League,^[1] which distributes free pocket-sized New Testaments via street evangelism, in 1908. Cadbury died in 1969 with her childhood dream - the Pocket Testament League - still in full force. She is buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery in Birmingham.

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References

↑ Pocket Testament League, A Brief History

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