Author: Shalem John

Birth: 13-04-1835 Home Calling : 02-03-1908 Native Place : Sharon Country: United States of America Place of Vision: Nizam Province, India In a Hyderabad market, a group of angry Muslims and Hindus surrounded a missionary doctor and his assistants who were trying to sell the Gospel tracts. The Muslims were told that the tracts were wrapped in pigskin, and the Hindus were told that the tracts were wrapped in calfskin. Both the groups were outraged and were ready to stone the missionaries. Then, the missionary doctor requested the people that he’ll tell a story and then they can kill him.…

Birth: 03-01-1813 Death:08-03-1892 Native Place: Pickering, Yorkshire Country: England Place of Vision: Fiji Islands and South Africa James Calvert was a Methodist missionary from Yorkshire, who is known for his missionary work in Fiji. When he was fourteen, he worked as an apprentice for a printer and bookbinder for seven years and the skills which he acquired then were extensively used in his later ministry. In 1837, he joined Hoxton Theological College but was soon discontinued for he was sent on a mission to Fiji along with missionaries John Hunt and Thomas Jagger. They reached Lakemba, a Fijian island, in…

Birth: 13.03.1815 Death: 21.09.1911 Native Place : Pennsylvania, US Place of Vision: Japan, China James Curtis Hepburn was one of the great pioneers of the Gospel and Christian civilization in Japan. Obeying the Word of God, … do to others as you would have them do to you,’ Hepburn went about doing good to various Asian communities as a medical missionary. Shortly after graduating from the Medical College of the Pennsylvania University, Hepburn along with his wife Clara Leete traveled to Singapore and then China as a medical missionary. After five years of active missionary work, the Hepburns had to…