Author: Shalem John

Birth: 15.01.1929 Death: 04.04.1968 City: Atlanta, Georgia Country: America Place of Vision : America Martin was born into Godly Christian family and his father served as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. At the age of five he heard his Sunday school teacher talking about salvation and gave his heart to Lord. However, during his college, he went through a period of skepticism and doubted Christianity as a myth. On the persuasion of his friends, he took up a course in Bible and that’s when he discovered profound truths of Bible which settled his cynical mind. After graduating…

Birth: 1859 Home Calling :16-08-1914 Native Place: Durham Country: England Place of Vision : Julfa and Isfahan, Iran Mary Rebecca Stewart Bird was a British Missionary who served the Lord in Iran. Mary committed her life to missionary work at the tender age of 5 years, when she heard about Africa from her father’s missionary friend. Such was her faithfulness to the commitment that, she refused a marriage proposal to the one whom she had affection for. After a few months of missionary training in London, she left for Persia in 1891. There she spent the initial few days learning…

Birth Home Calling: 1935 Native Place : New York Country: United States of America Place of Vision: India Mary Graybiel was one of the four young women who, in 1882, sailed to India to preach the Gospel. Mary became interested in missions when, as a small girl, she read the life story of Ann Hasseltine Judson. As she grew, her desire to become a missionary also intensified. One day, while attending a Sunday school institute in Buffalo, Mary found a circular issued by the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions calling for young women to apply for missionary work in India.…