Ellen G. White

The documentary starts by giving a brief biographical introduction to Ellen White. Ellen Gould Harmon was born in Gorham, Maine on November 26, 1827. Her date of conversion to Seventh-Day Adventism occurred in March of 1840. Six years later in August 1864, Ellen Harmon married a young Adventist preacher named James White. Soon afterwards, the two were inspired by God to the life ministry not long after having four sons—Henry Nicholas, James Edison, William, and John Herbert. As a result of traveling with her husband in service to God, there children were often left in the care of someone else. Henry, their first born son, was left in the care of the Howlands, a trusted family friend of the Whites, for five years. Ten years later, in December 1863, Henry passed away from pneumonia. Despite Henry’s death, Ellen White continued to exercise insurmountable faith stating that she had hope in seeing her son in the coming resurrection.
Many glimpses of the humanism in Ellen White were captured through her diary which she kept in her home in Battle Creek, Michigan. In conjunction to daily family worships, she recorded her daily activities which included things such as gardening, sowing, cleaning, and cooking. The magnanimity of the Ellen White and her family is best seen in their willing reception of people in need. According to a diary entry on June 1859, she recalls a time when nearly 35 people were eating at their table.
During her extended travels, Mrs. White kept in close communication with her children through letters. These letters, written in context of a missionary and as a parent, conveyed her constant care for and guidance of her children. In a letter to her at the time teenage son, Edison, Mrs. White admonishes him for wearin...

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...at gathered over three hundred thousand individuals.
New insights gathered about Ellen White which enhanced my appreciation of her ministry would have to be her acknowledgement of her tribulations and the idiosyncrasies which she battled with for a considerable amount of time. Instead of portraying herself to be a person excluded from the message envisioned to her, Ellen White admits her short comings, as noted in a 1876 letter to her husband, and even takes pleasure in her tribulations as she only saw them as moments that drew her closer to Christ. Although her inclusion of her short comings and genuine philanthropy creates likability and compatibility for her audience, her focus on and adhering to the Word of God as the way she overcame makes her ministry compelling due to ability to substitute oneself into her position and then find the solution to your problem.