Author: Shalem John

Birth: 07-03-1706 Home Calling: 01-04-1766 Native Place: Monchsroth Country: Germany Place of Vision: St. Thomas, Caribbean Islands “…He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” (Philippians 2:7). If Jesus himself took the form of a servant to save you, are you willing to follow the same example to save others? Johann Leonhard Dober did! Dober was an enthusiastic Christian and a potter by profession in a German village. At the age of eighteen, he heard a slave from West Indies entreating others to send someone to his island to enlighten them…

Birth Date: 11.01.1810 Home calling: 26.11.1881 Native Place: Tubingen Country: Germany Place of Vision : Eastern Africa Johann Ludwig Krapf was a missionary explorer in Eastern Africa. Johann was born in a farmer’s family and was raised as a sincere Christian. In his school, he saw a World Atlas and wondered why so few places have been marked in Eastern Africa. He thought, if Eastern Africa hasn’t been explored then the people there must not have heard the Gospel too. That’s how the seeds of his future ministry were sown into his heart. After his theological studies at Tübingen University,…

Birth: 02-11-1833 Home Calling :03-07-1908 Native Place : Urass Country: Scotland Place of Vision: India The caste system in India has brought many evils in society, and one of them is untouchability. It is a practice where the higher caste people ostracize others and subject them to inhuman treatment. Many Christian missionaries in India challenged such caste inequalities and played an essential role in a positive societal change. One of them was James Duthie. James Duthie completed his education at Bedford and was appointed a missionary to Chennai, primarily to carry out educational work. Then he was sent to Nagercoil…