History of Mission

Joanne Shetler

Joanne Shetler

“I’ve never quite figured out how to bring God glory. But I have learned to surrender my dreams to Him. And he has made the reality of living according to His plan even better than my greatest dreams.”

John Rucyahana

John Rucyahana

God is using the Bishop of Rwanda to transform a nation of people in great pain by creating opportunities for reconciliation to God one person and relationship at a time.

Helen Roseveare

Helen Roseveare

Helen mobilized people by showing them that God used imperfect people with real struggles to be his ambassadors to the unreached world.

John R. Mott

John R. Mott

Discover the life of John R. Mott, who lead the Student Volunteer Movement to be the greatest missions movement in history, mobilizing 100,000 goers and senders in his generation. 

Lottie Moon

Lottie Moon

Lottie left her career as a teacher and sailed to China in 1873 as a missionary appointee with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Samuel J. Mills, Jr.

Samuel J. Mills, Jr.

Historically, student movements have been started out of prayer. One of the most influential prayer meetings can be traced back to the impact of one student, Samuel J. Mills, Jr.

David Livingstone

David Livingstone

“I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages, where no missionary has ever been.” These words burned in Livingstone’s heart ultimately compelling him to give up his small ambitions in order to join Dr. Moffat as a missionary in Africa.

Eric Liddell

Eric Liddell

Eric’s legacy is not what God did through him in China, or that Eric won a gold medal. Eric’s legacy is that he made decisions in advance according to his God given convictions to run the race of life in order to get the prize.

George Liele

George Liele

George Liele is considered to be America’s first missionary. He chose to leave America in 1782 to start a church in Kingston, Jamaica. This was ten years before William Carey left England for India, and twenty years before Adoniram Judson left America for Burma.