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How FRANCIS GRIM MENTORED me in MISSIONS

28/4/2016

This last weekend we had the privilege of hosting Healthcare Christian Fellowship at Livingstone House for a Consultation with Healthcare Alliance members. Some participants came from America and Holland. The Director General of the Ministry of Health also visited and spoke to the participants. On Friday night I was asked to give a presentation on The Challenges Confronting Us. HCF was the first Mission I served under and it deeply impacted my life and future ministry.

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Frederick William Baedeker - Missionary to Russia

1/4/2016

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Frederick William Baedeker - Missionary to Russia
Over half of F.W. Baedeker’s life had passed before he became a Christian. His early years were spent in business, the army and in much travelling.

Transformed by Christ
In 1866, in his early forties, he became a Christian. “I went into the meeting a proud rebellious infidel and came out a humble believing disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Along with his remarkable spiritual transformation came a corresponding improvement in his health. His previous ill health had led many people to predict an early grave for him. But now, from his conversion, he began to undertake such strenuous journeys that would have depleted the energy of much younger and healthier men.

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Samuel Marsden - Missionary to Australia and New Zealand

1/4/2016

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“Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.” Genesis 18:18

Chaplain to Convicts
Samuel Marsden (1764-1838) was born in Farsley, Yorkshire, and the son of a Wesleyan farmer. He won a scholarship and studied for the Church of England ministry at Cambridge. Samuel Marsden was offered the influential post of Chaplain to the convict colony of New South Wales in Australia. His college friend, the Evangelical Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, organised this appointment. Within a month of marrying Elizabeth Fristan, Samuel was ordained and sent off by ship to New South Wales.

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John Williams - Missionary Martyr to the New Hebrides

1/4/2016

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John Williams was happier with a hammer in his hand than a pen. When he was 14 he went to work in an ironmonger’s shop. It was with great reluctance that he allowed himself to be persuaded by his employer’s wife to go to church. Moorfields Tabernacle was closely associated with George Whitefield’s ministry. The visiting preacher that Sunday night in January 1814 preached: “What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16: 26. That night John Williams realised what a bad bargain he was making and a woman’s persistence and prayer gained reward beyond measure.

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Robert Morrison - First Protestant Missionary to China

1/4/2016

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Robert Morrison was born January 1782 in Northumberland of a Scottish father and English mother who were both active members of the Church of Scotland.

Conversion
Although raised in a God fearing home by devout Christian parents, schooled in the Westminster Catechism and memorising the Psalms Robert Morrison, the youngest of eight children, was converted from a purposeless life of drunkenness at age 15. He immediately came to love the Bible so much that people always found him with a Bible at hand, and he began to teach himself Latin, Greek and Hebrew. His love for books so consumed him that he read into the early hours of the morning.

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How FRANCIS GRIM MENTORED me in MISSIONS

Frederick William Baedeker - Missionary to Russia

Samuel Marsden - Missionary to Australia and New Zealand

John Williams - Missionary Martyr to the New Hebrides

Robert Morrison - First Protestant Missionary to China

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