William Carey Book Report

In 1779, at the age of 18, William Carey left the Church of England to follow Christ. At first he joined the Congregational church at Hackleton where he was a shoemaker’s apprentice. While in Hackelton, Carey regularly took five mile journeys to Olney, in search for more spiritual truth. Olney was a stronghold of the Particular Baptists, the group that Carey associated himself with after his baptism on October 5, 1783. Two years later he moved to Moulton to become a schoolmaster and after a year, he became the pastor of a small Baptist congregation in the area. It was while in Moulton that William Carey heard the missionary call. Carey felt that his attention to missions was first awakened after reading the book, “The Last Voyage of Captain …show more content…
During his time at the church in his hometown, there were no missionary societies and no real missionary interest. When Carey brought up missions during a ministers’ meeting at church, one of the head preachers reprimanded Carey, telling him that, when God pleases to convert the sinners, He will do it without your help or mine. Carey was educationally unqualified but he knew God gave him the gift of languages, and that he must share it with people of the world. He persisted, and was determined never to give up at any point, because he believed that God had called him to share his gift with others. Feeling called by the Lord, Carey wrote the “Enquiry Into the Obligations of the Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen”, which is a missions book where Carey answered arguments, surveyed the history of missions and the entire known world as to country's, size, population and religions, and dealt with the practical application of how to reach the world for Christ. Carey prayed, pled, persisted, and preached; on May 30, 1792, Carey preached this message, “Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God." The result of that message, and all the other missionary ministries of Carey, produced the particular Baptist Missionary Society, formed at Kettering on October 2, 1792. Through this society, Carey was able to work to get the funding needed to go on his missionary