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The life of Isabella Lilias Trotter is a remarkable story of devotion, sacrifice, and quiet influence. Born on July 14, 1853, in London, Trotter was raised in a wealthy and cultured family. From an early age, she displayed an exceptional talent for art, a gift that would later become both a means of expression and a tool for ministry. As Read more...

John G. Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish missionary whose life and work in the South Pacific made him one of the most celebrated figures in nineteenth-century Protestant missions. Serving primarily among the islands then known as the New Hebrides (modern-day Vanuatu), Paton became widely known for his perseverance in the face of extreme hardship, his commitment to evangelism, and his Read more...

Wikipedia:   Jonathan Goforth (Chinese: 顧約拿單, February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th-century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions. Goforth grew up on an Oxford County, Ontario, farm, the seventh of eleven children. As a young man Read more...

Joseph Scriven (1819-1886) lived a life of sorrows. His fiancé died the night before they were to be married. Engaged again, this fiancé also tragically perished. He wrote a poem that he sent to his mother, that was set to music and published, as What a Friend We Have in Jesus. A memorial to him is found in his native Read more...

Hymn History: So Send I You Author: Edith Margaret Clarkson   “Billy Graham has called [it] ‘the finest hymn of our generation.'” (Mennonite Weekly Review) “Later in life, she rejected it as ‘spiritually immature,’ and begged churches to replace it with some newly-written lines.” (Ottawa Citizen)   The Origin of the Hymn “So Send I You” The life and legacy Read more...

Thomas Todhunter Shields  “He was called a ‘man of special gifts, a mountain peak without peer as preacher, teacher, writer — a veritable genius, the Canadian Spurgeon, a battling Baptist, and a devoted pastor.’” (David Cloud)   Early Life and Formation Thomas Todhunter Shields was born on November 1, 1873, in Bristol, England, into a family whose father was an Read more...

From the Wheaton Vault From Wikipedia: Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, was Betty Stam’s childhood home; she (the oldest of five children) grew up there, where Betty’s father, Charles Scott, was a missionary.[3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was Read more...

Watch Douglas Whitley in character as Hudson Taylor   Watch Our Christian Heritage interview with Vance Christie on Hudson Taylor   From China Christian Daily: On June 5, 2018, the Hudson Taylor Memorial Building was opened in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, where the great missionary is buried. In the past one year and some, Christians have visited the site on a nearly Read more...

Charles Thomas Studd, commonly known as C. T. Studd, lived a life marked by remarkable transformation, deep conviction, and tireless missionary zeal. From the cricket fields of England to the mission stations of Africa, India, and China, his story reflects a wholehearted commitment to faith and service that left a lasting impact on global Christianity. Born in 1860 into a Read more...

Watch Our Christian Heritage Interview with Ed McCully’s sons on the 70th anniversary of Operation Auca: Catch Part II – how has Operation Auca affected them 70 years later? Or watch from ITEC (Steve Saint, Nate Saint’s son – Operation Auca 60 years later) From Wikipedia: In 1956, on a sandbar on the Curaray, five Evangelical missionaries were killed by Huaorani tribespeople during Operation Auca, an attempt to Read more...

No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets.   WILLIAM WHITING BORDEN, OF YALE The Man with a Million for the Kingdom REV. HENRY W. FROST, America’s representative of the China Inland Mission, once asked a distinguished Englishman, “Of all that you have seen in America what has impressed you most?” Mr. Frost was expecting him to refer to the monuments of Read more...

From Wikipedia Lillian Hunt Trasher (27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961) was an American Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is famed as the “Nile Mother” of Egypt.[by whom?] Early life Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia.[1] According to one account, her Quaker family had moved to the South Read more...

Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) stands among the most influential Christian leaders of the eighteenth century, a man whose life blended aristocratic responsibility, deep personal piety, and an enduring passion for missionary work. Known formally as Reichsgraf (Imperial Count) von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, he played a decisive role in the renewal of the Moravian Church and helped spark one of Read more...

Good morning. This is Rebecca Lutzer from Wittenberg, Germany. A beautiful day here in this quaint, medieval-looking town that has so much history and has brought us here today to learn more about Martin and Katie Luther. So this morning, I’m going to share with you a little bit about their lives – how they met and how God used Read more...

Adoniram Judson, one of the earliest American foreign missionaries, lived a life marked by sacrifice, perseverance, and deep conviction. His death and burial at sea in 1850 stand as a solemn and fitting conclusion to a life spent in tireless service far from his homeland. The circumstances surrounding his passing reflect both the hardships of missionary life in the nineteenth Read more...

William Carey (1761–1834) is widely regarded as the “father of modern missions,” a title earned through his pioneering vision, perseverance, and lasting influence on global Christianity. Born in the rural village of Paulerspury, England, Carey came from humble beginnings. He worked as a cobbler by trade, yet possessed an extraordinary curiosity and intellectual drive. Largely self-educated, he taught himself Latin, Read more...

The life of Amy Carmichael is often remembered as a story of long endurance, practical compassion, and deep religious conviction. Born in 1867 in Ireland, she eventually spent more than half a century in India, where her work among vulnerable children left a lasting institutional and humanitarian legacy centered in Dohnavur. Carmichael grew up in a relatively comfortable Protestant family Read more...

From Wikipedia: The tomb of Cyrus the Great is located in Pasargadae, which was the first capital city of his Achaemenid Empire and is now an archaeological site in the Fars Province of Iran. The mausoleum is a significant historical example of earthquake engineering as it is said to be the oldest base-isolated structure in the world, allowing it great resilience against seismic hazards.[4] It is one of the key Iranian UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Read more...

Tomb of Jonah, long regarded as the traditional grave of the biblical prophet Jonah, stands as a site of deep religious and historical significance. Located in the ancient city of Mosul, the tomb was associated for centuries with the story of Jonah, whose account is recorded in the Book of Jonah. Revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, the site Read more...

Horatio Spafford (1828–1888) is remembered today chiefly as the author of the beloved hymn “It Is Well with My Soul.” Yet his life was far more than a single hymn. It was a story marked by prosperity and promise, sudden calamity, steadfast faith, and a final chapter of unusual missionary devotion. Born in 1828 in North Troy, New York, Spafford Read more...