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Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China; Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair; Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China; Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign ...
1904 – European Christian Mission was founded in Estonia by J.P. Raud. Today it is known as European Christian Mission International. 1905 – Gunnerius Tollefsen is converted at a Salvation Army meeting under the preaching of Samuel Logan Brengle.
Eric Henry Liddell (/ ˈ l ɪ d əl /; 16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and Christian missionary.Born in Qing China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended boarding school near London, spending time when possible with his family in Edinburgh, and afterwards attended the University of Edinburgh.
Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers; Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans; Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US; Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God; Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized ...
William Carey, (1761–1834) British missionary to India. Known as the "father of modern missions" Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University; Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India [1] and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.
Many forget the missionary zeal of Dr. David Livingstone, as he hoped to spread Christianity but also commerce, in Africa. Professor: Great Christian missionary who converted only one: Dr ...
Amy Carmichael was a prolific writer, publishing many books and articles about her experiences as a missionary in India. Temple prostitution was outlawed in India in 1948. Carmichael died in India in 1951 at the age of 83. She asked that no stone be put over her grave at Dohnavur. Other Christian missionaries have cited her as an influence. [12]