Author: Shalem John

Birth: 04-01-1881 Home Calling:29-03-1916 Native Place: Slagballe Country: Denmark Place of Vision : Arabia Christine Iverson Bennett was a medical missionary at the Arabian Peninsula. Originally belonging to Denmark, her family migrated to the United States in 1893. Christine’s experience of illness in her childhood motivated her to pursue the medical profession. She went to the University of Michigan and received her Medical Doctorate in 1907. Inspired by stories of missionary work in Madagascar, she applied for ‘The Board of Foreign Missions’ and was sent as a medical missionary to Arabia. Christine arrived in Bahrein in 1910 with a group…

Birth:16-10-1931 Home Calling:16-10-1931 Native Place: Boston Country : United States of America Place of Vision: United States of America Charles Wendell Colson, also known as Chuck Colson, was the founder of the ‘Prison Fellowship,’ the World’s largest prison ministry serving among prisoners, former prisoners, and their families. He was an American attorney and a political advisor to the American President Richard Nixon. However, in 1974, he was indicted for conspiring to cover up a political scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon presidency. As he was facing arrest, one of his friends presented him a copy of ‘Mere Christianity’ by…

Birth:-1746 Home calling: -1806 Native Place : Thanjavur, India Place of vision: Tamil Nadu, India Sati was a practice among Hindu communities where a recently widowed woman immolates herself on her deceased husband’s pyre. The orthodox Indian society shunned widows, and therefore the only solution for a widow was to practice Sati, as it was considered to be the highest expression of wifely devotion to a dead husband. Clarinda was one of the very few fortunate women who was rescued from such a barbarous act.Clarinda whose maiden name was Kokila belonged to a prominent Maratha Brahmin family. Shortly after her…