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William Carey was born on August 17, 1761, in the obscure village of Paulerspury, a rural community of 800 inhabitants, buried in the middle of England, about as far from ocean vistas as one could ...
- Ten Years, Thanks to You
Ten years ago, Dr. Ken Curtis had a crazy idea: Launch a...
- William Carey's Less-than-Perfect Family Life
William and Charlotte were both 46, and in many ways she was...
- Dorothy's Devastating Delusions
William and Dorothy Carey and their four sons arrived in...
- Ministry in The Killing Fields
William Carey and fellow missionary John Thomas were riding...
- William Carey Converts
Carey was attending a Congregationalist worship service, and...
- Hot Words in The Cold War
O n March 8, 1983, at 3:04 P.M., President Ronald Reagan...
- Ten Years, Thanks to You
- Timothy George
- Carey shows how God uses humble servants. William Carey was born in 1761 in Pury End to parents who were weavers. Carey himself worked as a cobbler and later became a village pastor.
- Carey led the church to recover a proper theology of missions. In 1792, Carey famously called Christians to a missional understanding of the church and claimed the Great Commission was for all Christians, not merely the apostles of Jesus’s day (39).
- Carey was the forerunner to the ‘Great Century’ of global missions. The 19th century was a period of vast geographic expansion for Christianity, thus earning it the title of the ‘Great Century.’
- Carey exemplified long-suffering and faithfulness in trials. Most missionaries of Carey’s day lost children in infancy; Carey was no exception. A strength of Faithful Witness is that it doesn’t rush into the successes and glories of Carey’s ministry in later years.
Feb 5, 2024 · Willliam Carey (1761—1834) was a pioneering English missionary to India, gifted linguist, and Bible translator. He spent 41 years of his life in the foreign field without furlough. His passion for unsaved, unreached people inspired thousands of nineteenth-century missionaries like Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, and Adoniram Judson to ...
Jul 13, 2022 · William Carey (1761-1834), known as the Father of Modern Missions, was a pioneer of new-style of evangelism in India. William Carey implemented various methods to spread the gospel: preaching, teaching (in schools), and literature (translating the Bible into more than 35 languages). This written piece presents an account of William Carey who ...
Jan 1, 1991 · Timothy George. 3.98. 58 ratings10 reviews. William Carey--now known as the father of modern missions--his example proved missions work was possible; his zeal convinced people missions work was essential; and generations of missionarires followed in his footsteps. Shoemaker, botanist, translator, preacher, factory manager--William Carey was all ...
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Following are highlights of Carey’s work described in Vishal and Ruth Mangalwadi’s outstanding book The Legacy of William Carey: A Model for the Transformation of a Culture. 5. Carey was horrified that India, one of the most fertile countries in the world, had been allowed to become an uncultivated jungle abandoned to wild beasts and serpents.
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17 August 1761. Paulerspury, England. Died. 9 June 1834. (1834-06-09) (aged 72) Serampore, Bengal Presidency, British India. Signature. 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 ...
