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The interchange is noted in Benjamin Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (1784). [169] 1701 – Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts officially organized [154] 1702 – George Keith, returns to America as a missionary of the newly organized Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Thomas J. Arnold Missionary in China during the Qing dynasty; David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland; Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China; William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author; Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827–1862; Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey
Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God; Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized missionary to China; René Goupil – French missionary to what is now Canada; Évariste Régis Huc – French missionary in nineteenth century China; Isaac Jogues – French missionary to what is now Canada
During the Middle Ages, Christian monasteries and missionaries (such as Saint Patrick and Adalbert of Prague) fostered formal education and learning of religion, beyond the boundaries of the old Roman Empire. In the seventh century, Gregory the Great sent missionaries, including Augustine of Canterbury, into England.
Cross-cultural missionaries are persons who accept church-planting duties to evangelize people outside their culture, as Christ commanded in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20, Mark 16:15–18). The objective of these missionaries is to give an understandable presentation of their beliefs with the hope that people will choose to following ...
In 2002, apostle M. Russell Ballard delivered a General Conference address stating that the bar to qualify for missionary service had been raised and that "the day of the 'repent and go' missionary is over". [104] During the church's October 2012 General Conference, church president Thomas S. Monson announced that the minimum age for missionary ...
Robert Parmelee Wilder (August 2, 1863 – March 27, 1938) was a religious missionary born in Kolhapur, India who brought about the missionary awakening in the United States in 1886. [1] He is best known for recruiting thousands of students to become missionaries through the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions he founded. [ 2 ]
Jason Lee (June 28, 1803 – March 12, 1845) was a Canadian Methodist Episcopalian missionary and pioneer in the Pacific Northwest. He was born on a farm near Stanstead , Quebec. After a group of Nez Perce and Bitterroot Salish men journeyed to St. Louis requesting the Book of Heaven in 1831 (their people had heard of it years before), Lee and ...