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William Carey and his family sailed to India in 1793. He often faced hardship and sorrow there, but he didn't abandon his mission and stayed for over 40 year...
The early nineteenth century was important for many reasons in Christian history, but one of the most dramatic involved the sweeping missionary effort that was determined to bring the gospel to...
A Missionary Who Transformed a Nation. When Englishman William Carey (1761–1834) arrived in India in 1793, it marked a major milestone in the history of Christian missions and in the history of India.
William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India.
William Carey was a British Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Seramp...
William Carey was the founder of the English Baptist Missionary Society (1792), a lifelong missionary to India, and an educator whose mission at Shrirampur (Serampore) set the pattern for modern missionary work.
Carey, the first Baptist missionary of the modern era, arrived in colonial Calcutta in November 1793 without any travel permits. His family managed to survive because he accepted employment as manager of an indigo plantation in the interior of Bengal.
