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Jim Elliot was the first of the five missionaries killed when he and Peter Fleming were greeting two of those attackers. Elliot's body was found downstream, along with those of the other men. Ed McCully's body was found even farther downstream.
Adoniram Judson (/ ˌ æ d ə ˈ n aɪ r ə m /; August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist [1] missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years.
In the tradition of Lull, [11] Zwemer 'left behind a mighty highway of print almost a book a year in English for over half a century.' [12] As part of this great literary undertaking, he settled in Cairo in 1912 to work with the Nile Mission Press to make it 'a production point for Christian Literature for Muslims.' [13] As an outcome of the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference in 1910, he ...
Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd (2 December 1860 [1] – 16 July 1931), was a British missionary, a contributor to The Fundamentals, and a cricketer.. As a British Anglican [2] Christian missionary to China he was part of the Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Heart of Africa Mission which became the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade (now WEC ...
Plaque commemorating the spot on Court Street in Boston where Dwight Moody was converted in 1855 by Edward Kimball in 1855. Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount ...
John Mbiti was born on 30 November 1931 in Mulango, Kitui County, eastern Kenya.His parents were two farmers, Samuel Mutuvi Ngaangi and Valesi Mbandi Kiimba. He was one of six children and was raised in a strong Christian environment.
Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Scotland David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings. Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde under the bridge crossing into Bothwell. [6]
Don Richardson (June 23, 1935 – December 23, 2018 [1]) was a Canadian Christian missionary, teacher, author and international speaker who worked among people of Western New Guinea, Indonesia. [2]