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David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot , and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.
David Griffiths (20 December 1792 – 21 March 1863), was a Welsh Christian missionary and translator in Madagascar. [1] He translated the Bible and other books into the Malagasy language . The Malagasy Bible of 1835 was among the first Bibles to be printed in an African language.
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.
David Abeel (June 12, 1804 – September 4, 1846) was a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church with the American Reformed Mission. ... History of Christian missions;
Griffith John Missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth; Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union; David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa; Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China; Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 ...
While working on the European Continent in 1887, Baron befriended Charles Andrew Schönberger (1841-1924) of the Free Church of Scotland.In 1893 they severed ties with their respective Missions organisations and founded the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel that October with the purpose of converting Jews to Hebrew Christianity.
David Livingstone FRGS FRS (/ ˈ l ɪ v ɪ ŋ s t ə n /; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary [2] with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. [3]
Allen was born in Barre, Massachusetts to Moses and Mahitable Allen. [1] His father relocated the family to Princeton, Massachusetts while David Allen was an infant. [1] He initially began collegiate studies at Williams College, but moved to Amherst College upon that institution's opening. [1]