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Dec 1, 1998 · This book recounts the incredible life of William Carey, the "founding father of modern missions." Today, he is remembered for his missionary and reformer work in West Bengal but much of the book is dedicated to the formative experiences in his early years in England.
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Oct 26, 2021 · This book review was written by Hank Griffith of South Suburban Evangelical Free Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota. For most missions minded Christians, at least of my generation, William Carey (1761-1834), “the father of modern missions”, is a household name.
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- 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.
May 20, 2019 · William Carey. 4.27. 11 ratings3 reviews. Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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Nov 1, 1997 · Read 11 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. As a shoemaker turned missionary, he mastered the languages of India to spread the Word of …
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