Author: Shalem John

Birth: 26-01-1865 Home Calling : 05-01-1904 Homeland : England Vision: : Kanpur, India The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 is a well-known event in the freedom struggle of India. There were hundreds of innocent casualties on both sides. Peshwa Nana Saheb imprisoned hundreds of British women in one big hall (Bibighar) in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) and mercilessly ordered his sepoys to slaughter them. The British army could only arrive after the massacre and found bodies floating in knee-deep blood in that hall. Although the British had their revenge, the Society for Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) too wanted to…

Birth : 21-07-1814 Home Calling: 12-03-1880 Native Place : Borough Green, Kent Country England Place of Vision: Cameroons, Africa Alfred Saker was a son of a millwright. Despite his desire for knowledge and books he could get only minimal study and started to work at his father’s workshop. Once when he was crossing a chapel, he heard singing and entered in. He started to help the choir there and was later on involved in the Church activities. Eventually, he was drawn towards God and baptized. He started to visit church members’ houses and visited all neighbourhood villages. Soon, the church…

Birth : 11.02.1872 Home calling :19.08.1937 Native Place : Kremenets Volhynia (now Ukraine) Vision: North America and Russia Alexander Hotovitsky was an Orthodox Church missionary to America and a martyr during the Bolshevik oppression in Russia. Born in a pious family, Alexander received a good Christian upbringing from his parents, who instilled in him a love for the Church and the ministry. Soon after his graduation, Alexander was assigned to serve in the newly established St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in New York, America. Along with his wife Maria Scherbuhina, Alexander arrived in New York in 1896. He concentrated his ministry…