Author: Shalem John

Birth Date: 1866 Home calling : 1915 Native Place: Nellore, India Place of Vision: India; Natal, South Africa During the early 1900s, many Indians left for Natal, a British colony in South Africa to work as agricultural laborers. Among them were around 150 Telugu people who were working at Sir James Hulett’s tea plantations. Hulett was a good Christian and looked after the physical and spiritual needs of the laborers. He felt the need for a Telugu person to communicate the Gospel to these Telugu laborers properly and wrote to the American Baptist Mission in India. When several backed off…

On the night of October 21, three unidentified men kidnapped 48-year-old American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout from his home in a secure neighborhood blocks away from the presidential palace in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. The armed kidnappers then headed toward the western Tillaberi region in Niger, where militants linked to Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaeda are active, according to Reuters. When Moussa Djibo, a Nigerien missionary with Calvary Ministries (CAPRO) in Niamey, heard the news, he was worried. “We … always thought Niamey was safe because it is the capital,” he said. “But after the kidnapping, we realized…

Birth:16-01-1847 Home Calling : 09-02-1936 Birth Place: Maine Country: United States of America Place of Vision: Japan Being a missionary to be honoured in a foreign land where Christians had hard times is not something simple. John Cutting Berry was an American medical missionary who received the Order of the Sacred Treasure (3rd class), an honourable award from the Japanese government. Japanese published his biography, the ever first biography of an American written by the Japanese, and they regarded him as the father of prison reformation in Japan. Berry lost his father when he was four years old and started…