I will be teaching a two-week module on "Missionary Member Care" starting next week. So I decided to provide an excerpt from “William Carey: Missionary Pioneer and Statesman” by F. Deaville Walker pg. 125-129. It is a fairly old book, published in 1925. This passage describes some of the many challenges, externally and internally, that …
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Missions Quote from the 1928 Jerusalem Conference of the IMC
If this same topic were written today, closing in on 90 years later, there would be a few changes... but not many. This quote is from the 1928 Jerusalem Conference of the International Missions Council. Throughout the world there is a sense of insecurity and instability. Ancient religions are undergoing modification, and in some regions …
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Roland Allen Quote on Missionaries and Leadership
"The secret of success in this work lies in beginning at the very beginning. It is the training of the first converts which sets the type for the future. If the first converts are taught to depend upon the missionary, if all work, evangelistic, educational, social is concentrated in his hands, the infant community learns …
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Two Quotes from David Bosch on the Church on Mission
Church in missions: "A community of people who, in the face of the tribulations they encounter, keep their eyes steadfastly on the reign of God by praying for its coming, by being its disciples, by proclaiming its presence, by working for peace and justice in the midst of hatred and oppression, and by looking and …
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Pioneering Christian Missions Quote
“I am not reaping the harvest; I scarcely claim to be sowing the seed; I am hardly ploughing the soil; but I am gathering out the stones. That, too, is missionary work; let it be supported by loving sympathy and fervent prayer.” -Robert Bruce, missionary to Iranian Muslims in the late 19th century. <Quoted by …