Author: Shalem John

Birth:18.02.1781 Death:16.10.1812 Native Place: Cornwall, England Place of Vision: India, Iran Henry Martyn was an Anglican priest and a missionary to India and Persia. He lost his mother shortly after his birth and was brought up by his father John Martyn, a miner. In his youth, Henry had a flaring temper and violent nature. Once he almost killed his friend, hurling a knife at him in a fit of rage. However, his father’s death changed his attitude completely. He went to St. John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated in Mathematics. The fellowship he had with Charles Simeon, an evangelical clergyman in…

Birth Home Calling Native Place: West Virginia Country: United States of America Place of Vision: India Herman Reynolds was an American missionary who served in Central India. He graduated from Lynchburg Christian College and then went to Vanderbilt University for ministerial training. Herman married Mildred Pritchett, who too had a burden for the missionary service. Together they went to the College of Missions, where while they prepared for missionary work, they also did pastoral work in Yale. Led by the Holy Spirit, they joined the Indian mission in 1927 and arrived in Jabalpur in Central India. After spending some time…

Birth:14-11-1804 Home Calling :18-04-1895 Native Place : Dublin Country: Ireland Place of Vision: Jamaica and Nigeria Hope Masterton Waddell was an Irish medical missionary who served in Jamaica and Nigeria. Even from his young age Waddell expressed a strong desire to join the ministry but couldn’t because of his speech impediment. However, if God can use stammering Moses to lead lakhs of Israelites, can’t he use Waddell too? Yes! God opened for Waddell the doors for missionary work while he was apprenticing at a drug store. After a ministerial training in Edinburgh, he was sent by the Scottish Missionary Society…