Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

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Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

• First Missionary Era (1792-1910)

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Count Z and the Moravians

• Nicholas Ludwig, Count Zinzendorf
• Lutheran background
• Born in Dresden, Germany in 1700
• Discipled Moravian tenants on his land
• Started Protestant World Movement

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Expansion of the Moravian Movement

• 1731 sent two Moravian missionaries to St. Thomas
  Virgin Islands
• Preaching the Gospel to slaves
• Africa, America
• Russia and other parts of the world

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George Liele, an African American Pioneer

• 1750- 1828
• Mission field Slave quarters, Savannah Georgia
  and Jamaica
• First American overseas Missionary

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George Liele

• In 1773-1775 Liele preached in slave quarters of
  Savannah plantations
• In 1782, George Liele established the first
  Baptist Church on the sugar growing island of
  Jamaica
• Baptized over 400 free and slave Blacks.

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John Marrant, 1770

• John Marrant, a free black from New York City,
  ministered cross-culturally, preaching to the
  American Indians. By 1775 he had carried the
  gospel to the Cherokee, Creek, Catawar, and
  Housaw Indians.

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William Carey, an Englishman

• William Carey lived from 1761-1834
• Careys motto Expect great things from God.
  Attempt great things for God. (Isaiah 542-3)

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Careys Mission

• Conversion of the heathens
• Mission field India (1793)
• Sent by The Baptist Missionary Society from
  London England

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Carey took the Great Commission Seriously

• At what points of your life have you chosen to
  follow God in this way?
• What happens when only half of the motto is
  followed?

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Richard Allen, church planter

• In 1816, founded the African Methodist Episcopal
  (AME) denomination.

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Women Pioneers

• Betsy Stockton
• Ann Hassetine Judson

Betsy Stockton
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Second Era (1865-1980)

• Hudson Taylor
• Ephraim Simeon Alphonse
• African Methodist Denomination
• Christian Methodist Episcopal

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Hudson Taylor

• Taylors decision to live simply and to give
  generously.
• His mission to the poor of China
• His decision prepared him for ministering the
  gospel.
• What decisions have we made to prepare ourselves
  for ministry?

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Black Methodist Missionaries of The Second Era

• Planting black congregations in North and South
• By 1886, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) was
  the world's largest denomination of African
  Americans with 400,000 members.
• Sent missionaries to Haiti, San Domingo, and
  Africa.
• In 1893 AME headquarters received a request from
  a group of Afro-Cubans to send missionaries to
  their island.

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Christian Methodist Episcopal

• Christian Methodist Episcopal engaged in church
  planting and establishing educational
  institutions in the South

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Ephraim Alphonse, Bible Translator

• ALPHONSE, Ephraim Simeon - Minister of Religion
  and Playwright 1896-
• Calabar Theological College, Kingston, 1924-26
• Wrote first grammar and vocabulary in Hindustani,
  Spanish and English
• Reduced Valiente (Guaymi) Indian Language to
  writing also translated four Gospels and became
  Translator of Scripture for the American Bible
  Society, 1928 and 1929

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Women in Mission in 2nd Era

• The Civil War and death of a generation of men.
• Women organized their own mission boards.
• Two thirds of the foreign mission force is
  female.
• What women do you know who are living out this
  heritage?
• What areas do you see for further global
  involvement of women or in partnership with women
  overseas?

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Modern Missionaries of the 3rd Era (1934-Present)

• William Cameron Townsend started Wycliffe Bible
  Translators in 1934
• Donald McGavran
• Non western missionaries increasing
• African American Missionaries increasing

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Josephine Makil First African American
Missionary with Wycliffe

• I was actively seeking to walk with the Lord.
  Wycliffe offered the opportunity to make Christ
  known. - Josephine Makil
• (1932-2003)
• Bible translator, educator and literacy worker
• Administrator and recruiter of ethnic minorities

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Gaspar and Josephine Makil Third Era Pioneers

• First Afro-Filapino missionary couple with
  Wycliffe 1959-1963
• Bible translators in Viet NamRoglai people
• Death of Gaspar (1963)

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Going on Alone

• Starting an MK education program in the
  Philippines
• Recruiting African Americans
• Doing literacy with the Gullah people
• Mentoring younger missionaries

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Donald McGavran and the 3rd Era

• Reaching the sociocultural groups
• Muslim Women
• Children
• People of low caste

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What can American Churches do in this Era?

• Assist in completion of the Bible translation
  task.
• Assist the indigenous church in uniting for the
  establishment of viable growing congregations.
• Assist indigenous churches in training and
  discipleship of the evangelized.
• Send trained, long-term missionaries

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What can American Churches do in this Era?

• Disciple and send missionaries
• Short-term and Long-term
• Financially support missionaries
• Personal support and Projects
• Partner with churches overseas
• Partner with Nationals in other countries

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References

• Winter, Ralph D., Hawthorne, Steven C.
  Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
• Winter, Ralph, Editor. Mission Frontiers, Special
  Issue. U.S. Center for World Missions, William
  Carey Library, 2002
• Hugh, Steven. Wycliffe in the Making Memoirs of
  W. Cameron Townsend. 1920-1933, Harold Shaw
  Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. 1995
• Grimes, Barbara, Editor. Ethnologue Languages of
  the World with Maps and Indexes, Fourteenth
  Edition, SIL International, 2000.
• Barlow, Fred. William Carey. Sword of the Lord,
  Publishers, 1976
• Websites
• http//docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html
• www.perspectives.org