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The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006 was the subject of the film production End of the Spear.
The Glenmary Home Missioners and Glenmary Sisters are part of the consortium of Roman Catholic mission organizations that have worked together to launch www.Mission.Education.org., a website that provides information and resources about the missionary work of the Church both overseas and here at home: volunteer service, immersion experiences ...
Works about missionaries (4 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Missionaries" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Shaw was Secretary of the Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission from 1907 to 1936. [4] He did much work to expand CMS work into other areas of southern Sudan. He pushed hard for CMS to open work amongst the Zande, Bari and Moru tribes. In 1922 Shaw was made Archdeacon, and this was his identity as he was from then on always known as Archdeacon Shaw. He ...
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 ...
The missionary principles formulated by Nevius later became known as the "Nevius Plan", and were a development of the existing ideas of Henry Venn and Rufus Anderson. [7] When American Presbyterians began their work in Korea, the new missionaries invited Nevius to advise them. Embracing his method, the Korean mission enjoyed great success ...
Saint Daniele Comboni – Italian bishop and missionary to Africa; Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – Spanish missionary in Guatemala; 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 ...
Deciding that her mission lay in Africa, she broke off the engagement ten days before the wedding after her prospective husband failed to share her call. [5] Trasher also taught at a second Bible school in South Carolina, pastored a Pentecostal church, and briefly travelled with an evangelist, but later returned to work again at the orphanage.