Missionaries of the World

William Carey, the "the Father of Modern Missions", an English Baptist missionary and a Reformed Baptist Minister, was born on 17th August 1761 in a small cottage at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire Dist in England, in the heart of the district which had produced Shakespeare. His parents Edmund and Elizabeth had five children; Carey was the eldest of five children. His life was hard and his parents, who were weavers, were both literate and devout. A major change in the family took place when his father was appointed the village Schoolmaster in the year 1767. They moved to Paulerspury School House meant more space for the family. His own peculiar room was a little library as well as museum of natural history, which he filled his collection of plants, stones, insects and books, etc. He was in twelve, learning more languages and reading travel books. In 1777, Carey was started shoemaking trade and a shoemaker from sixteen to twenty-eight years. Under scarcity situations and the g...

Sadhu Sundar Singh born as Sundar Singh was an Indian Christian Missionary at Rampur, Panjab State in India. After lost his mother, he took out his anger on the missionaries, persecuted Christian converts, ridiculed their faith and burned the Holy Bible. When he made a suicide attempt GOD touched him. He set out a journey as a Christian to Northward through Punjab, over the Bannihal Pass into Kashmir where he referred as "The Apostle with the bleeding feet". He went to Divinity College, Lahore to learn theology' and he returned to the Sadhu's life without completion of divinity. He travelled through North India and the Buddhist states of the Himalayas. When he was in Rasar, he had fallen into a dry well and he was rescued by members of the "Sunnyasi Mission". He made a long tour to South India, Ceylon, Burma, Malaysia, China, Japan, Britain, United States, Australia and Europe. Name: Sadhu Sundar Singh Born : September 03, 1889 Rampur, Panjab in Indi...

Father Charles Spinola or Blessed Charles Spinola, is the Roman Catholic Missionary and Martyr, born in Genoa, in Northan Italy, 1564. He was an Italian nobility family. He was educated by his uncle Cardinal Filippo in Jesuit School at Nola, Compania, Italy. Then he moved to Noviatiate in 1584 and joined the Jesuits in Nola and was ordained in 1594. In 1596, he received a letter appointing him to the missionary in Japan. His journey was marked by shipwrecks and delays, which included captivity in England and he reached his destination, Nagasaki in Japan in 1602, six years later. He worked at ministering to the growing Christian community in Japan for twelve years. In Miyako, he taught mathematics and astronomy at Jesuit College until 1614. In 1614, there was a riot to persecute Christians; all foreign missionaries were banished from Japan. So Charles Spinola went into hiding, eluding capture for four years. He captured on 13th December 1618 and imprisoned. He was abused for his ...

William Booth, a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General and a Giant of a Manwas, was born on 10th April 1829, at Sneinton, Nottingham in England, to Samuel Booth and Mary Moss. Booth's father was wealthy by the standards of the time, but during his childhood, as a result of bad investments, the family descended into poverty and his father became an alcoholic. In 1842, his father, Samuel Booth, who by then was bankrupt, could no longer afford his son's school fees and thirteen years old, William Booth was apprenticed to a pawnbroker. He was converted to 'salvation' and Methodism, after completion of two years apprenticeship. He then read extensively and trained himself in writing and in speech, becoming a Methodist lay preacher. He was encouraged to be an evangelist primarily through his best friend, Will Sansom. Sansom and Booth began in the 1840s to preach to the poor and the "sinners" of Nottingham and Booth...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born on 19th June, 1834 in Kelvedon, Essex, England. He was educated at Colchester and much of his religious training came from his father and grandfather both of were preachers. At the age of fifteen, his conversion to Christianity came on 6th January 1850. He was admitted to the church at New Market on 4th April 1850. His baptism followed in the river Lark at Isleham on the 3rd May. Later that same year he moved to Cambridge, where he later became a Sunday school teacher. Charles Spurgeon preached his first sermon in the winter of 1850-51 in a cottage at Teversham while filling in for a friend, Cambridge. From the beginning of his ministry, his style and ability were considered to be far above average. In the same year, he was nominated as a pastor of a small Baptist church at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, where he published a Gospel tract written in 1853, which was his first literary work. In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just f...

Amy Wilson Carmichael (1867 –1951) a Protestant Christian missionary in India was founded Dohnavur Fellowship, a society devoted to saving neglected and ill-treated children. She was born in the small village of Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland to David and Catherine Carmichael. Her parents were devout Presbyterians and she was the eldest of seven siblings who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She was the founder of the Welcome Evangelical Church in Belfast and she served in India for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about the missionary work there. Name: Amy Wilson Carmichael Born : December 16, 1867 at Millisle, Ireland Founded : Dohnavur Fellowship at Tirunelveli, India Missionary Work: South India Died: January 18, 1951 at Dohnavur in Tamil Nadu, India Her early life Amy Wilson Carmichael was born on December 16, 1867 in the small village of Millisle, County Down, Ireland to David and Catherine Carmichael. Her parents were...

Rev.Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius, the Apostle of Tirunelveli, was born on 5th November 1790 at Germany, in the second son of Mr.Otto Gottlieb Nikolaus Rhenius, an officer in the Prussian army. Charles Rhenius was the first Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary to India. He was six years old, his father, Mr.Otto Gottieb Nikolaus Rhenius died. At fourteen years old, he left school and went to work in his uncle’s office. He had worked for three years, another uncle called him to come and live with him. He read many missionary magazines at his uncle’s house and he felt God was calling him to go overseas as a missionary. His uncle was unhappy about his decision, though he accepted it. But his aunt tried to get him to change his mind. Charles Rhenius had to struggle in prayer to overcome the request, since his uncle had no children and he planned to leave all his property to Charles Rhenius. He went to Berlin to study theology at a missionary college of Basel. When he left home, he did...

Rt.Rev.Dr.Robert Caldwell, DD., LLD was born on 7th May 1814 at Clady, Northern Ireland, to Scottish parents. Initially self-taught and religious, young Caldwell graduated from the University of Glasgow and was fascinated by the comparative study of languages. He arrived in Madras, now at Chennai of South India on 8th January 1838 at his twenty fourth years, as a missionary of the London Missionary Society and later joined the Society for the Propagation of Gospel Mission (SPG). Caldwell married Eliza Mault (1822–1899) in 1844 and they had seven children. Mrs.Eliza Mault was the elder daughter of the veteran Travancore missionary, Rev.Charles Mault (1791–1858), the Missionary of London Missionary Society. Mrs.Eliza Mault worked for more than forty years in Travancore and Tirunelveli proselytizing the vulnerable, especially the Tamil women. Caldwell realised that he had to be proficient in Tamil to proselyte the masses and he began a systematic study of the language. Idayankudi Churc...