Author: Shalem John

Birth: 27-11-1866 Home Calling: 03-07-1941 Native Place : Östergötland Country: Sweden Place of Vision : China Johan Alfred Rinell was a Swedish Baptist missionary to China. He was born in 1866 and started to preach at the age of nineteen. Later, he attended Stockholm’s Bethel Seminary where he was inspired to become a missionary by the speech of the British missionary Hudson Taylor. Leaving the seminary, he served as a pastor in Fredrikshald, Norway, and married Hedvig who also had a desire to become a missionary. Nevertheless, when they had received an unexpected invitation to go to China as missionaries,…

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…

Birth: 01-03-1647 Death: 04-02-1693 Native Place: LisbonCountry : PortugalPlace of Vision: India Many missionaries left their country to serve the Lord. But only a few left not only their homeland but also their family, culture, food habits, and attire and adapted themselves to the foreign land where they were serving. They did it not because of being attracted to something new, but to attract many towards the Saviour of the world. Being born in a noble family, John de Britto could have had a bright future in the Royal court, but his heart was not after the glory of this…