Missionary

less fortunate people. I remember when I was a kid, my school was visited by missionary from Africa. She was talking about heartaches of every day life, including healthcare, especially malaria disease. At that time, malaria vaccine was non-existent and I remember I wish to became a doctor/biologist and come up with medicine or vaccine for malaria. Sadly, I didn’t become a doctor, but I still support the cause. The missionary came to my school in 90s, so about the same time Joel started to…

The Boxer Rebellion erupted during the 20th century killing over 30,000 Chinese Christians and 200 Christian missionaries. In was led by the anti-Manchu, anti-Christian and anti-European Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the Boxers. They goal was to drive foreigners out of China using guerilla warfare. They slaughtered any Christian missionaries they found and seized foreign embassies. The Manchu government was unable to put down the rebellion, so foreign forces intervened…

to be something more. It is not merely theological, it is sociological. Verse four may shed some light on this issue. David Williams adds an enlightening perspective, “the converts are said to have joined Paul and Silas that implies that the missionaries had by now withdrawn from the synagogue and were conducting separate meetings.” The word προσεκληρώθησαν can be rendered in the middle or passive voice. Some commentators suggest that it is passive in the sense that” God allotted these…

Against the background of the First Opium War (1840–42), Western photographers visited China for the first time, accompanying Western military personnel, missionaries, and consular officials. The earliest recorded photographic activity in China by Western photographers was in July 1842, only three years after the invention of the medium. Dr. Richard Woosnam (1815–1888) and Major George Alexander Malcolm (1810–1888) made daguerreotypes at Yangtze (Yangzi) River during the final stages of the…

The Attack Took 3 parts With General William Tecumseh Sherman Who attacked the confederate troops under the order/command of Patrick Cleburne at tunnel hill. While Sherman Began To Trudge Tunnel Hill. Grant Order Thomas to extend his line to Missionary Ridge to see how Bragg would react. To the south under the cover of dense fog that would stay throughout the battle. Hooker’s troop advanced up Lookout Mountain without meeting any opposition troops. Hooker’s troops reached the confederate line…

fan of traditional cricket would recognize the game. The modifications included the number of players allowed, chanting and dancing, the throwing style and changing the bats and the balls. When the British banned war on the Island the Christian missionaries replaced the warring with the game of cricket. The Trobriand people began modifying the game to incorporate some of their war practices. So now they allowed for numerous more people to play but they had to fit the traditional war…

The Struggle for North America The seizing of North America by the Europeans is done largely without weapons. Of course weapons and warfare play a large part, but the Europeans don’t sail over and begin conquering their New World. European exploration began with the desire for trade and to spread religion. Finding the Indians offered them the chance to do both. These people had never seen anything like the Europeans and were mostly receptive to new goods to trade, and were willing to listen to…

all the raw materials that Europe had wanted. At first, the Europeans were unable to enter Africa because of disease, but later there were Europeans who were able to penetrate Africa. They were missionaries, explorers, and humanitarians who stood against the European and American slave trade. The missionaries had tried to promote Christianity, while the explorers wanted to gain loyalty from the natives, and the humanitarians wanted to help the nation succeed. The European powers scrambled to…

Imagine you were a woman living in the Nez Perce tribe, a tribe that had assisted hundreds of white Englishmen from the start of their arrival. But then suddenly, your trusted friend Governor Stevens turns his back on you and your people, he decides that miners could search for gold on your land. When you realize that the government soldiers are willing to kick you off your land, you are mad but you don't not want to conflict with white settlers so you leave but some of your tribe attacks…

when the white missionaries from England invade Umuofia, Okonkwo does not realize how powerful this group of men are because he was away in his motherland. When Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye, converts to Christianity with the white missionaries, Okonkwo becomes furious and disowns him from the family. Later in the story, Okonkwo returns from his motherland, Mbanta, and he begins to learn that Christianity is sweeping through the land of Umuofia, Okonkwo’s fatherland. The white missionaries were using sly…