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Oct 8, 2017 · Brainerd Mission was a multi-acre mission school situated on Chickamauga Creek near present-day Chattanooga. Named for eighteenth-century missionary David Brainerd, it was the largest institution of its type among the Eastern Cherokees.
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot , and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.
In the center of the photo, an unassuming clump of trees marks the cemetery of a historically significant, yet often forgotten place. The Brainerd Mission was named for a revered New England missionary David Brainerd, who died in 1747.
First: Missionary David Brainerd, for whom the mission was named, never came close to Tennessee and was dead 70 years before the mission opened. Yet roads, schools, churches, businesses and an entire suburb are named for him.
- Tremendous Impact
- Constant Struggles
- Lifestyle of Prayer and Fasting
- Ten Diary Entries on Fasting and Prayer
Of Brainerd’s twenty-nine years on this earth, he lived only eight of them as a believer and only four as a missionary. Yet his life has impacted people through the centuries to the present day—people including such spiritual greats as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, William Carey, Robert M’Cheyne, David Livingston, Andrew Murray and Jim Elliot. Jon...
Brainerd struggled with chronic sickness, depression, and loneliness—and as stated, he battled harsh living conditions as a missionary. His life is an undeniable reminder that God uses even the weakest saint upon his knees—the one who trusts in God alone and puts no confidence in the arm of the flesh. It doesn’t matter how sick, how discouraged, ho...
Brainerd was diligent in prayer and fasting. He wrote of spending whole days in prayer. For him, fasting was a lifestyle, as you’ll see in the excerpts below. When Brainerd was dying in Jonathan Edwards’s house, he urged young ministers who came to see him to engage in frequent days of private prayer and fasting because of how useful it was. Jonath...
“Monday, April 19. I set apart this day for fasting, and prayer to God for his grace; especially to prepare me for the work of the ministry, to give me divine aid and direction in my preparations for that great work, and in his own time to send me into his harvest. Accordingly, in the morning, I endeavoured to plead for the divine presence for the ...
Sep 24, 2022 · The mission and school were named for David Brainerd, a Presbyterian missionary who gave his life to the service of Native Americans in New York and New England.
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Born: April 20, 1718 Haddam, Conn. Died: October 9, 1747 Northampton, Mass. Life Span: 29 years, 5 months, 19 days. He was only 29 when he died...his gravestone simply says, "A faithful and laborious missionary to the Stockbridge, Delaware and Susquehanna tribes of Indians."
