Author: Shalem John

Birth: 03.01.1884 Death: 25.01.1973 Native Place: Baltimore, Maryland Country: United States Place of Vision : India Stanley Jones was an American missionary and a theologian who is known for founding the Christian Ashram movement in India. He accepted Christ when he was 17 and graduated in Law from Asbury College, Kentucky. He planned to become a lawyer but instead obeyed God’s call to ministry. He was sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church to serve as a missionary in India in 1907.- In India, he met a Muslim during a train journey, and out of his missionary enthusiasm, he read to…

Summit Ministries president Jeff Myers has seen evangelical attitudes toward Israel shift over the three decades he has spent working with young adults. In the early years, the high school and college age students attending the Christian nonprofit’s worldview training conferences rarely mentioned Israel unless it was in the context of biblical prophecy. Today, students have strong political opinions about the Jewish state. “Young adults are not with you,” he told an Israeli intelligence officer over dinner during a trip to Israel three months after the Hamas attacks. “Not even young Christians.” The American evangelical church has long supported Israel,…

Birth: 31-08-1882 Death: 19-04-1969 Native Place: India Place of Vision: India Savarirayan Yesudasan was a missionary and the founder of the Christu-kula Ashram (Family of Christ Ashram) at Thirupattur district, North Arcot, South India. During the early nineteenth century, indigenous forms of Christianity took roots. The rethinking of Christianity from an Indian perspective was reiterated by a group of students from the Madras Medical College, one among whom was Savarirayan Yesudasan. He believed that Christianity must understand the spiritual ethos to adopt methods of work and forms of worship in line with local tradition. After finishing his FRCS in Edinburgh,…