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Faith Cook

Faith Cook (1940 – N/A) is a British author, and hymn writer whose ministry has inspired Christians worldwide through her writings and spoken messages rooted in evangelical faith. Born in northwest China to Stanley Rowe and Norah Rowe, missionaries with the China Inland Mission (now OMF), she spent her early years amidst war-torn conditions until missionaries were expelled in 1951. Returning to the UK, she attended Clarendon School in North Wales and trained as a teacher at Bromley College in Kent, later marrying Paul E.G. Cook in 1961, a pastor who served churches in the Midlands and Yorkshire. Cook’s preaching career emerged through her role as a pastor’s wife and her gift for storytelling, delivering sermons and talks that blend personal testimony with historical Christian narratives. Her messages, often drawn from her childhood in Troubled Journey (2004) and her extensive biographies like William Grimshaw of Haworth and Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, emphasize perseverance, faith in adversity, and God’s sovereignty. Author of over 20 books, including Singing in the Fire and Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns, she has spoken at churches and conferences, amplifying her ministry from Breaston, Derbyshire. Married to Paul, with whom she has five children—four sons and one daughter—and ten grandchildren, she continues to share her faith through writing and preaching.