Missions History

Brother Andrew, a missionary commonly referred to as God’s Smuggler, served our Lord by putting his life at risk to smuggle Bibles into forbidden territory during the Cold War. His mission often took him across enemy lines for the sole purpose of placing the gospel in the hands of those […]

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.” -W. Cameron Townsend   In 1917, a young man named Cameron Townsend faced a perplexing decision. A few years before, he had joined the Student Volunteer Movement, pledging to serve […]

“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”  -Elisabeth Elliot   After missionary Jim Elliot was martyred by Auca warriors, his wife Elisabeth was heartbroken. Left a widow, with a 10-month old daughter to care for, what would she do next? Her decision would impact the future of […]

When the news about John and Betty Stam leaked out of China, it sent shock waves around the globe. The young missionary couple had only been in China two years before they were captured by the Communist Red Army. Their daughter, Helen Priscilla, was only 3 months old at the […]

From runaway slave to the founder of the first black Baptist church in Canada, David George’s life was one of remarkable courage. He overcame racial prejudice, poverty, and many other obstacles to serve God. And his life blazed forth the light of the gospel on the Dark Continent. Here is […]

One June day in 1849, a seventeen-year old boy found himself bored, with nothing to do. He picked up a gospel tract to read, thinking, “There will be a story at the beginning and a sermon or moral at the close. I will take the former and leave the latter […]

Imagine this…a one-room schoolhouse at recess, when children rushed out the door to play in the warm sunshine. Yet one boy stayed behind. He loved to stand in front of the maps in the schoolroom. Studying each continent in each turn, he was fascinated with lands he had never seen. […]

“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!” -Oswald J. Smith In […]

In a poor Scottish home in the early 1800s, a father led his family in prayer. One of his sons would later write, “How much my father’s prayers impressed me…he poured out his whole soul with tears for the conversion of the heathen world to the service of Jesus, and […]

If there is one verse that could sum up the life of missionary Charles Forman, it is this verse.   “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” (Galatians 5:13)   Born to prosperous […]