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Pioneering Missions
Topic Started: Sep 17 2006, 09:57 PM (89 Views)
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By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Great Awakening had come and gone, for the most part, and missions was seeing a revival. Jonathan Edwards was both preaching to the Colonists as well as ministering to the nearby Mohicans.

In England, John Wesley and George Whitefield were stirring outdoor revivals, and William Wilberforce was trying to abolish slavery.

Meanwhile, William Carey was attempting to form a mission board and ship himself off to India. Only partly succeeding in his attempts to create the board, Carey, soon to be hailed as the Father of Modern Missions, died in India in 1834. In 1795, because of Carey, the London Missionary Society was formed. Like Carey, their burden was for the South Seas, but the first voyage was anything but successful. Henry Nott was one of the few who stayed and worked despite the odds, seeing almost nothing for sixteen years or more. John Williams and John Paton were later missionaries to other islands in the area.

Robert Moffat was one of the first modern missionaries to Africa, and was the predecessor of David Livingston, who later married his daughter.

On the American side, Adoniram Judson left for Burma in the early 1800’s, and was soon imprisoned as a British spy. Once released, Judson spent fourteen years translating the Bible into Burmese, finishing it ten years before he died.

The British & Foreign Bible Society was formed in 1804, and the American Bible Society in 1814, thus beginning the era of modern missions.
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