William Carey is described as the “father of the modern missionary movement”, as he began the holistic way which missionary work is done around the world today. When Carey arrived in India in 1793, he knew there was much to be done. He put together a team called the Serampore Trio. It consisted of Carey himself, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward; both were colleagues of Carey’s. Marshman was also accompanied by his wife, Hanna, and they both served as teachers, while William Ward served as a printer. These three men would go on to work with Carey and lead the people of India through translating the scriptures and transforming the culture. They would continue this mission until their deaths.
On January 10th, 1800, Carey established the Serampore
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That was a text Carey had been working on for six years prior to arriving in India. In 1804, the first of 19 missions was established in Cutwa, which kick started the spreading and establishment of missions throughout Asia. Carey and his team continued working to spread the gospel and translate the scriptures into the many languages throughout India for many years. Unfortunately in 1812, a fire broke out at the Serampore mission base. Carey and his team had been working on translations for years, and many unfinished drafts, as well as completed books went up in flames that year. The printing press within the base was also destroyed; being worth $10,000, and was an essential tool for the team to continue on their mission. The loss of the press and their translation work put the ministry on a hold, but not for very long. Word about the fire got out within the community and abroad. Within 50 days, the complete amount to purchase a new printing press was sent to the mission; this was the first account where generous donations were offered to missions. Carey and his team quickly got past this setback and purchased another press. With this press, there was an unlimited amount of potential that was given to Carey and his …show more content…
William Carey began dozens of schools for the children of India as well as the first college in Asia. He also established 100 rural schools focused on the education of girls specifically. He translated the Bible into 40 different languages, and transformed the Bengali language. Carey also established a total of 19 mission stations which would work to further missions in the area as well as train missionaries to travel out to other regions. It was said that, through Carey’s unfailing love for the people of India and his relentless campaign against the spiritual forces of evil, India was literally transformed. At the end of 1817, the mission drew up a report with regards to scriptures, tracts, and baptisms, and found that there were a total of 420 adults baptized, scriptures circulating in 16 different Indian languages, and about 300,000 tracts printed in 20 different languages. William Carey gave his life to teaching and translating the scriptures, and through his work at spreading God’s love and an awareness of the mission, a total of $450,000 was donated to the missions before Carey died. Carey had spent 41 years in India. During this time the life expectancy in the region of his mission work was only around 25 years. So he outlived many of the people that he was working alongside with in his mission. His life was full of many setbacks as well as countless
He is paid much less than other missionaries and takes on tasks that others would not. He believes that this is predetermined and there is nothing that he could have done better. "So I am ready to say, they have usd us thus, because I Cant Instruct the Indians so well as other Missionaries, but I Can assure them I have endeavours to teach them as well as I how-but I must Say, I believe it is because I a poor Indian. I Can 't help that God has made me So; I did not make my self So.-”
“And observe: that which I saw and suffered form was a settlement purged, bettered, beautified; the new village built, the hospital and the Bishop-Home excellently arranged; the sisters, the doctor, and the missionaries, all indefatigable in their noble tasks.”(Bunson 251)
When you think your average baseball player, what do you think of? The player usually has all of his arms, legs, and no physical disabilities. Anyone who plays baseball would think it is hard to imagine that a person born without a right arm is able to play the game and let only be able to be a pitcher. Jim Abbott faces all the odds and has ten-year career in the major leagues. Abbott had to faces many obstacles throughout life and his playing career. Jim Abbott grew up being picked on since he didn’t have a right arm. When Abbott was younger he would use a steel hook as right hand and other children were afraid of him. Also, they called him names like Mr. Hook.
.... The most remarkable fact I found was the persistence of Williams with his trying to redeem Eunice. I made this connection with the realization of the fact that John and Stephen Williams were both ministers. Stephen didn’t lose faith until 1765, when Eunice’s husband passed away. When Stephen heard of the death of his brother in law, he thought Eunice would return home. The Kahnawake community had accepted Eunice as one of their own long before then. When her husband died, Eunice had a large support system behind her. Stephen eventually stopped writing Eunice; the last letter she received from him was dated 1761. Eunice wrote to Stephen in 1771, telling of her worry that she had not heard from him. In her letter to Stephen, Eunice told Stephen that her health was rapidly declining and she would not make another trip to visit; she would see him in the afterlife.
...tence it at least allowed him to educate the natives about Christianity and that their experiences before now with the Europeans were not of a Christian nature. Throughout the letter, Las Casas seems careful to be very consistent and never veers from ensuring that his audience knows of the atrocities of the people of their own land to the natives fellow humans. God has a plan for everyone and this is not it.
As I kept on reading, there was a strong connection between the novel and the Operation Auca missionary trip in Ecuador in 1956. The life of a native like Oknokwo’s and his tribe are rough and can be a problem with the more civilized people in a country. God needed some of His followers to reach towards the tribes to teach the Gospel, so that they can get along with anyone that intersects with the natives. In the mission trip in Ecuador, five missionaries were speared to death to spread God’s Word. After words, their wives took their places, took part in the native tribe, and members accepted Christ in their lives. When I read through the book, one question was connected to me; the question said, “What do Christian missionaries do in different cultures to spread the Gospel?”
Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis inspired missionaries to travel to foreign nations.
Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." Franklin, Wayne, Phillip F. Gura and Arnold Krupat. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007. 147-158.
The Gospel Spreading Church was founded by a man by the name of Elder Solomon “Lightfoot” Michaux, who was born, raised, and educated in Virginia. In 1906, Lightfoot came to Mary Eliza Pauline, a woman one year his junior, was born and raised in the church. With hard work and dedication, by the age of 34, Lightfoot, had become “a prosperous business man, securing large government contracts to furnish food to defense establishments.” Mrs. Michaux prayed for the salvation of her husband daily, and one day, “God saved him and from that time forward, they worked as a team in gospel ministry.” One year after finding salvation, Elder Michaux was ordained and licensed. He then began preaching at a small church called “Everybody’s Mission” which he had built up from scratch. Moving from Everybody’s Mission, Michaux began once again to build a church, this time starting from a tent. It was here, in this tent, that one hundred and fifty people would come to accept the Lord as their Savior, and would join the Michaux family in becoming the foundation of the Gospel Spreading Church (GSC).
In the short story of “The Gospel According to Mark”, Jorge Luis Borges introduces the readers to controversies to the works of missionaries faced by many civilizations around the world. Borges accomplishes this by accompanying the story with ironic symbols and substantial religious references which allow the readers to connect the story to relevant past events. In this short story, Borges ironically criticizes the effects which various missionaries had on different groups of indigenous people. Amongst these effects, a portion of the effects were positive, while a great majority of the effects was negatively impacting the indigenous groups which the missionaries came in contact with.
All of the authors we have conversed about in class and studied about at home are connected in at least one way, if not many more. For example, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Michael Wigglesworth and John Winthrop all write about God and the way we should all act and the simple fact that we all need to be Christians and so must the Indians who occupy their lives. Where as these authors are writers of the Heavenly Father, the authors that I wish to write about, though they do speak a little about God, I am writing on their influence on the Indian culture as well as the impact the Indians have made in Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s, Mary Rowlandson’s and Samson Occom’s lives.
Walls, Andrew F. 1996. The Missionary Movement In Christian History. 1st ed. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books.
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God is a primary source document written in the 17th century, by a well-respected, Puritan woman. This book, written in cahoots with Cotton and Increase Mather, puritan ministers, tells the story of her capture by Indians during King Phillip’s War (1675-1676). For three months, Mary Rowlandson, daughter of a rich landowner, mother of three children, wife of a minister, and a pillar of her community lived among “savage” Indians. This document is important for several reasons. First, it gives us insight into the attitudes, extremes, personalities and “norms” of the Puritan people we learn about in terms of their beliefs, and John Calvin’s “house on a hill”. Beyond that, despite the inevitable exaggerations, this book gives us insight into Indian communities, and how they were run and operated during this time.
"This is the Hour of Decision with Billy Graham, coming to you from Minneapolis Minnesota" Billy Graham, has preached to more than 210 million people through a live audience, more than anyone else in history. Not only that, but Mr. Graham has reached millions more through live televison, video and film. This has led Billy to be on the "Ten Most Admired Men in the World" from the Gallup Poll since 1955 a total of thirty-nine times. This includes thirty-two consecutive more than any other individual in the world, placing him as the most popular American for about forty years. This essay is going to talk about Graham's personal life, and what kind of family he grew up in and im also going to talk in detail about how he became an evangelist, because I feel it is very important yet interesting. His accomplishments in the fifties are uncomparable, so I will be including a considerable amount of information concerning that topic. Finally I will be talking about his personal achievements, books written, and how he has been a companion to some of the American Presidents. William Franklin Graham Jr. was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. Graham was raised on a dairy farm by William Franklin (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and from aerobic walking, in the mountains of North Carolina, where he currently lives. (Billy Graham Best Sellers, 1999) Billy Graham told Time Magazine in one article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early in the morning and go milk cows. When I came back from school that day, I had to milk those same cows. There were about twenty cows I had to milk. By hand. That was before they had those machines. I loved being a farmer. But God called me to this work that I'm in now. I knew it was God calling. I said, "Yes. I will follow what God wants me to do." And so I went to two or three schools to get education.
... spoke about his missions around Southeast Asia. He mentioned how they were forced to burn down all the huts they possibly could as well as the Southeast Asians’ personal possessions, food, and even the livestock. He also talked about the crying women and children heard as they carried out these missions.