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Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876), also sometimes anglicised as John Rebman, [1] was a German missionary, linguist, and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast.
The returned missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found a way to uphold these standards in preparation for the Ms. United States competition.
On 31 May 1863, the Mission was returned to the Church with 33 acres by an order signed by Abraham Lincoln. [32] Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was sold to American settlers, and the funds were used to pay off Governor Pico's debt. The Mission was returned to the Franciscans in 1843. [33] Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was sold in 1845 by ...
Rebecca Kellogg Ashley retained work for Missionaries trying to Christianize Native Americans from 1745 until her death in 1757. Rebecca began work with Elihu Spencer and Job Strong, who was hired by The Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England, or known as the New England Company, for missionary work.
The Franciscan Recollects (French: Récollets) were a French reform branch of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan order. Denoted by their gray habits and pointed hoods, the Recollects devoted their lives to an extra emphasis on prayer, penance and spiritual reflection (recollection), focusing on living in small, remote communities the better to facilitate these goals.
The two sign a vinculo de hermandad misionera – a bond of missionary brotherhood -- by which the two orders would collaborate in missionary work in Ethiopia, China, the Philippines, and the East and West Indies. 1586 – Portuguese missionary João dos Santos reports that locals kill elephants to protect their crops in Sofala, Mozambique.
1887 – The Hundred missionaries deployed in one year in China under the China Inland Mission. Dr. William Cassidy, a Toronto medical doctor, was ordained as the Christian and Missionary Alliance's first missionary preacher. Unfortunately, en route to China, he died of smallpox. However, Cassidy's death has been called the "spark that ignited ...
He was born October 30, 1789, in Bennington, Vermont, one of thirteen children of his mother, Lydia, and father, Calvin Bingham. [1] He attended Middlebury College and the Andover Theological Seminary. [2] He had as private tutor Rev. Elisha Yale, who taught him Greek and Latin and prepared him for higher education. [3] [4]