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Harris Hilton became the first missionary with the support of his wife Padma Hilton. [7] They were sponsored by the BHEL Thiruvarambur prayer group at Trichirapalli, Tamil Nadu. The first mission station was started on June 9, 1967 at Periamalai. [8] Hilton, Dr. Pushparaj and General Secretary Emil Jebasingh arrived in Periamalai. [9]
The World Mission Prayer League (WMPL) is a pan-Lutheran fellowship committed to Christian prayer as a working method of mission. WMPL exists as an international community of approximately 6,000 members with formal offices in the United States ( Minneapolis , Minnesota ) and Canada ( Camrose , Alberta ).
John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. [1] He brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity.
A 16th-century copy of the letters of John of Montecorvino, from the Vatican Apostolic Library. John of Montecorvino, OFM (Italian: Giovanni da Montecorvino; 1247 – 1328) was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, founder of the earliest Latin Catholic missions in India and China, and Archbishop of Peking. [1]
The 1962 revision added twenty-six post-Reformation individuals, as well as commemorations of the first General Synod and of "The Founders, Benefactors, and Missionaries of the Church in Canada." Of the calendar days, twenty-eight were highlighted as "red-letter days" — that is, days of required observation.
1746 – From Boston a call is issued to the Christians of the New World to enter into a seven-year "Concert of Prayer" for missionary work [180] 1747 – Jonathan Edwards appeals for prayer for world missions; 1748 – Roman Catholic Pedro Sanz and four other missionaries are executed, together with 14 Chinese Christians. Prior to his death ...
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod , a French priest later recognized as a Catholic saint .
Henry Martyn (18 February 1781 – 16 October 1812) was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. [1] A chance encounter with Charles Simeon led him to become a missionary.