Author: Shalem John

Birth: 30-07-1894 Home Calling : 02-08-1973 Native Place: Virginia Country: United States of America Place of Vision: China Lemuel Nelson Bell was born into a devout Christian family and gave his life to Christ at the age of eleven. He desired to pursue law. But when a friend asked him that whether he ever thought of becoming a medical missionary, Nelson heard the voice of God and understood what God wanted him to do. So, he studied medicine. In 1916, along with his wife Virginia, Nelson sailed to China. He started to work at the “Love and Mercy Hospital”. He…

Birth: 26.05.1700 Death: 09.05.1760 Native Place: Germany Place of Vision: Germany Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was an 18th century German religious and social reformer. Born in a noble family, he showed an early inclination towards theology and religious work. Though he was a Lutheran, history remembers him as a Moravian for protecting the German-speaking Moravian exiles in his county. His only obsession in life was to see the spiritual unity of believers irrespective of their denomination. He was perhaps the first minister to use the term ‘ecumenism’ (the principle of promoting unity among the different Churches) in the context of…

Birth: 23.04.1858 Death: 05.04.1922 Place of Vision : India Native Place: Maharashtra, India Ramabai Dongre was born into a religious Brahmin family and spent almost a decade studying the Hindu scriptures counter to the then normative Indian practice. She excelled in every learning area and was awarded the title of ‘Pandita’ (meaning scholarly) for her mastery over the Sanskrit scriptures. However, after the death of her husband, she was abused by her husband’s family. Hence, she left for Pune, where she started working among other widows, teaching them life skills to liberate them from the clutches of societal abuse and…