Judson decided to completely dedicate his life to the Lord. Judson felt compelled to serve the Lord by traveling to and becoming a missionary in Burma. The biggest problem was there was no other missionaries to foreign lands from the United States‚ and there was also no missionary societies to support him. Judson decided the only way to do this was to start his only missionary organization. On February 19th 1812‚ Adoniram and his wife‚ Ann‚ set sail from Salem‚ Massachusetts to India. During the voyage
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20‚ 2013 Chief Seneca Speech Analysis Chief Red Jacket recognized that Seneca culture was in jeopardy due to missionaries successfully converting some of his people‚ and decided to take necessary measures to salvage his peoples’ culture. Many aspects of the Seneca life had already been exploited‚ as the colonists continually took their land. In Chief Red Jacket’s address to missionaries he crafts a compelling speech that uses language masterfully to create a backhanded tone of indignation on the
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impacts their contact had on Maori culture Before the 1840s there were many European groups that impacted Maori culture with positive‚ negative‚ major and minor impacts. These main groups that impacted Maori culture were the Explorers‚ Traders‚ Missionaries and the Sealers and Whalers. Some of these groups had major impacts on Maori culture and some of them had minor impacts. The explorers had a major impact to the Maori culture because they were the ones to start these changes and impacts to New
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of five missionaries who sacrificed their lives in the jungles of Ecuador‚ this documentary film “Beyond the Gates of Splendor” takes us through that original journey to the events that followed half a century after. A thoroughly informed and accurate story‚ it has some limitations‚ but is well worth the watch. The well-known facts about this story are that five men‚ Jim Elliot‚ Roger Youderian‚ Nate Saint‚ Pete Fleming‚ and Ed McCully ventured to Ecuador in the mid 1950’s as missionaries‚ along
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the book. One day William received a letter from a guy in London‚ this guy was a real missionary. William couldn’t believe a real missionary had wrote him a letter. They agreed to meet on the next meeting of the missionary society. The missionary was late but everyone get to know him‚ William stayed talking to him all night‚ he had so many questions and every answer brought a new question with it. The missionary told them all
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David Livingstone is a Scottish missionary and physician. He spent most of his life exploring Africa. He helped Europeans learn a lot about the continent of Africa. Livingstone was born in Scotland. His parents were really religious so David followed his dad’s footsteps. David is a really hard working person‚ the reason why he would want to go to Africa was because he knew that there weren’t a lot of Christians there; he also knew that not many people there knew about Christ. At age ten he began
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John Mbiti‚ is called the “father of contemporary African Theology”‚ and was born in November of the year 1931‚i n Kenya. He is currently 87 years of age and is a renowned pastor‚ author of various books as well as a Theologian and a teacher. He is also seen as a religious Philosopher and he critically challenged the Christian hypothesis of the “demonic and anti-christian”‚ seen as the traditional African religion. He made the following statement “Christian Theology in Africa is not a new phenomenon”
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St. Ignatius of Loyola St. Ignatius of Loyola‚ the founder of the Society of Jesus‚ was born in 1491 in the Basque Country of Northern Spain to parents of distinguished families in that area. He was the youngest of 13 children and was called was called Iñigo. At the age of 15‚ he served as a page in the court of a local nobleman and later embraced a military career and became a valiant soldier. Wounded in battle by a cannonball‚ which broke one leg and injured the other‚ he was taken prisoner by
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were from low caste people like Paravas‚ Mukkuvans and Kadayans.1 Kanjamala argued that there was mass conversion among the aborigines of Chotanagpur in Eastern India. German Lutheran missionaries began their work in 1844AD and within a few years few thousands adivasis were converted. In 1885AD Jesuit missionary‚ Constant Lievens arrived there and had successful mass conversion movement among Munda‚ Oraon and Kharia. In five years he baptized about 75‚000 adivasis in and around Ranchi. By 1931AD
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Constantine created an alphabet known as the Glagolitic. The missions of the two brothers allowed for the “ramifications for the development of culture among the peoples influenced by Byzantium‚ for the Byzantines.” It was easy for Constantine to be a missionary to the Slavs because many people enjoyed his teachings. His teachings were solely based on biblical teachings that interested the Slavs in Moravia. Since Constantine was highly recognized by the emperor Rastislav‚ it was easier for people to look
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