Author: Shalem John

Birth: 20-01-1833 Home Calling : 09-12-1867 Native Place: Pennsylvania Country: United States of America Place of Vision: Brazil Ashbel Green Simonton was an American pioneer missionary to start the first protestant church in Brazil. He was consecrated for God’s work by his mother and was raised in a Godly environment. He was a teacher by profession and also pursued an education in law. However, God answered his mother’s prayers and powerfully spoke to him at a revival meeting in 1855. In obedience to God’s call, he gave up his flourishing career and went to Princeton Seminary for theological training. Whilst…

Birth:-293 AD Death: 373 AD Native Place: Alexandria Country: Egypt Place of Vision: Egypt Athanasius was the chief defender of Christian orthodoxy in the 4th century battle against Arianism, the heresy that the Son of God was a creature of like, but not of the same, substance as God the Father. Athanasius received his philosophical and theological training at Alexandria. Followed by the death of the Bishop Alexander of Alexandria, he was appointed the Bishop of Alexandria. He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors for his defense of the doctrine of Christ’s divinity, spending 17 of the 45…

Birth: 13-11-354 Home Calling: 28-08-430 Homeland : Algeria, North Africa Place of Vision: North Africa The early church faced several attacks from internal heretics. When there was a potential threat to the destruction of the church doctrine, Saint Augustine responded to the threat with much wisdom. Some still consider his responses to be the church’s most important writings after the Bible. His numerous works, including the ‘Confessions’ and ‘The City of God’, shaped the practice of biblical interpretation and laid the foundation for modern Christian thought. Augustine was born into a family that belonged to a respectable class of Roman…