“Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.” Isaiah 49:1
Our Vision
Trotter House of Spencer County is a community outreach with the vision to serve our local communities with excellence in meeting the needs of families and helping them thrive.
Our Mission
To fulfill the vision statement, Trotter House of Spencer County will offer specialized programs and services to assist women and families in unplanned pregnancies or difficult situations. Our overall mission is to ensure that Trotter House will continue to serve communities across the globe in excellence and unconditional love, in Jesus name.
Our History
Lilias Trotter, a woman of extraordinary artistic talent, courage, and profound hope. Born in 1853 to a wealthy London family, she grew up with a strong faith and was deeply influenced by the evangelical revival meetings that swept through England during her young adulthood.
Trotter was a gifted artist. Though Lilias had received little formal instruction, her drawings so impressed the famed critic, John Ruskin, that he urged her to devote herself to her art, confident that if she did, she could become England’s greatest painter, creating immortal works of beauty.
Ultimately, through her care for those in peril, even more than her paintings, Trotter created works of truly eternal beauty. In London, she worked to rescue women from the sex trade, and on her thirty-fourth birthday, she applied to be a missionary in Algeria. Funding this work from her resources, Trotter led a group of determined women to North Africa in 1888 and served there until she died in 1928.
In Algeria, Trotter worked primarily for the sake of women and children. She also felt deeply called to share the gospel with Algeria’s Sufi mystics, whose deep hunger for spiritual realities resonated with her passionate quest for the truth and beauty of God.
Trotter’s choices exposed her to many challenges, but her message was always one of courage and hope. She wrote “Take the very hardest thing in your life – the place of difficulty, whether outward or inward – and expect God to triumph gloriously in that spot. It is there He can bring our soul into blossom. When God delays fulfilling our small desires, it is to give Himself room to work out His great purposes.”
