Author: Shalem John
Birth Death: – 84 AD Native Place: Antioch (in present-day Turkey) Place of Vision:- Luke, the Evangelist, is the author of the ‘Gospel According to Luke’ and the ‘Acts of the Apostles’ in the Bible. He was educated as a physician and is one of the church’s earliest historians. Very little information is available about the life of Luke apart from the references in the letters of Paul, the Apostle in the Bible. Luke was a native of Antioch, a part of what is now Turkey. He was a faithful companion to Paul in his missionary journeys and simultaneously provided…
Birth Home Calling Homeland: United States of America Place of Vision: India Lulu E. Garton was a missionary to India (1915-1921) from the Broadway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Kansas, US. Born to Cristian parents, Alexander Hamilton and Mary Frances, Lulu was brought up in the Christian way and in the fear of the Lord. As a young girl, she was fond of mountaineering and she describes her experience with the Lord as “I first breathed God’s air in the rare atmosphere of the Rockies, a mile or so higher than Denver, in a little mining center called Silver Plume,…
Birth:28-09-1809 Home Calling:28-06-1840 Homeland : Scotland, United Kingdom Place of Vision: Tonga and Fiji Islands Margaret Cargill was one of the pioneers of the Fiji Mission, in the days when all mission-work in the South Pacific was attended with personal danger and excessive privation. Following her marriage with David Cargill, the couple set sailed for Tonga in 1832. Soon after arriving in Vava’u, she threw herself into the mission work with characteristic earnestness and zeal. As soon as she could talk sufficiently in the language to be understood, she visited the elder women in their huts and told them in…