Missionaries

Patience in Action and Faith is a Virtue of Jesus Christ Growing up in rural Upstate New York, I can remember how quite often my mother and father would repeatedly tell me and my brother that “patience is a virtue”. Granted this counsel, was often repeated during times of impatience and frustration. As a young child, it brings to my remembrance many experiences of sharing toys with my brother, wanting and waiting for the sharp edge of my popsicle to be cut off with scissors, or the endless “Are…

The creation of the internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Additionally, according to Nils Smith, social media is the most popular activity on the internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon is a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. Thousands of people use social media daily, but…

a letter for the past few years. Since the day I left Alaska, me and many other missionaries went through an unforgiving sea, docked our ship, Uranie on a small bay in Hawai’i island, and right now we’re in the middle of teaching some important things to these Hawaiians. I don’t know if you’ll fully understand, but the reason why I secretly sailed all the way out into the middle of the ocean is, because we missionaries needed to spread our Christianity to Hawai’i. When we landed on the island,…

Medical missionaries in China were able to completely achieve many of their goals but experienced many struggles in their experiences. The first struggle that was eventually overcome with time was simply the medical missionaries access to China in the early nineteenth century. However, medical missionaries still encountered many problems in the second half of the nineteenth century. These latter problems were caused primarily by the differences in culture and ideologies between the West and…

Mack and Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions was a very interesting book and I learned a lot about short-term missions from it. I liked how they used their personal stories in order to help get the point they were making across and because of this I was able to follow along well and was able to apply my personal experience with short-term missions because I was able to better understand the points they were making. Chapter one of Mack and Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions talks about how…

The work Jim Withers does is he takes medicine with him were he goes and walks around Pittsburgh giving homeless people medicine which will save their lives and make them healthy again. He has seen many different types of people with many different types of stories on were there from. Jim never gets tired of doing what he does. Jim withers started doing this because. Jim withers brings students along with him when he is giving medicine to the homeless which he says helps the students learn how…

The term evangelism has a lot of stigmas attached to it. Some people (some believers (not all)) see it as a great and very necessary thing that we all are called to practice and do everyday. While other people (non-believers and believers alike) view evangelism as street preachers telling passerby that they are heathens and they are going to hell if they don’t get Jesus. When it comes to evangelism, obviously you want to do the first one and not the second. But how do you properly do it? What do…

The primary documents ‘Christian Missionaries Oppose Removal’ from 1830 and the extract from ‘The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden’ from 1814/15 provide crucial insight into the attitudes that the missionaries held towards both Maori and Native Americans (specifically the Cherokees.) In doing this, they successfully reveal some aspects of constructions of ‘race’ in the early nineteenth century. Both documents expose the view that the missionaries held of the indigenous people as ‘savages’…

Missionaries and their conflictive involvement in Imperial politics Foreign Missionaries played a detrimental role when it came to colonial conquest in the 19th century. Sent out by the European governments to expand its empires, missionaries influenced the lives of Africans by directly or indirectly facilitating the “Colonization of Consciousness:” the idea of transforming Africans into colonial subjects by introducing the western, civilized way of life. This was seen through language,…

essay, I am going to describe and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of engaging in missions using the lens of reason, with a brief overview of two other lenses: Tradition and experience. I will present ideas from the perspectives of my father, a missionary and my granduncle, the Right Reverend Datuk Bolly Lapok. Also I will share my experience of dealing with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Depression through poetry and spoken word and how those platforms impacted many who…