From the Archives The Mother of Modern Missions By bravely going where no American wife had gone before, Ann Hasseltine Judson inspired generations of women to become missionaries. By Dana L. Robert, from issue 90: Adoniram & Ann Judson
In the 21st century, whether the job is evangelism or social outreach, women missionaries are essential to cross-cultural work. Who has not heard of Lottie Moon, Gladys Aylward, Elisabeth Elliott, Mother Teresa, and many others? Yet when the "modern missionary movement" began, many people considered pioneer mission work too dangerous for women. More …
Christianity Fever Through a century of political turmoil and disillusionment, waves of Chinese intellectuals have come to Christ. by Stacey Bieler and Carol Lee Hamrin
As for Me and My House The house-church movement survived persecution and created a surge of Christian growth across China. by Tony Lambert
Worshiping Under the Communist Eye The birth of an "official" Chinese church helped Christianity thrive in public under political constraints. by Ryan Dunch
From Foreign Mission to Chinese Church Missionaries in China were hampered by pressures from home, mistakes in leadership, and identification with the West, but they planted the seeds that would someday yield an astonishing harvest. By Daniel H. Bays
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Missionaries William Carey Father of modern Protestant missions
"Expect great things; attempt great things." —William Carey
August 9, 1788: American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who during his missions work in Burma translated the Bible into Burmese and wrote the first Burmese-English dictionary, is born in Malden, Massachusetts (see issue 90: Adoniram & Ann Judson)
By the 1830s, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) prohibited unmarried persons from entering the mission field. The Board believed that married missionaries could cope better with hardships and resist sexual temptations. Thus they required young men to be engaged at least two months before entering the mission field. To help the would-be missionaries find wives, the ABCFM had an ongoing list of "missionary-minded" women who were considered "young, pious, educated, fit and reasonably good-looking."
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