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ON THIS DAY in MISSIONARY HISTORY
12 April 1850 – American Baptist Missionary, Adoniram Judson, died at age 61, at sea in the Bay of Bengal. He was a pioneer Missionary to Burma and succeeded in translating the Bible into Burmese and planting over 100 churches with 8,000 believers. He also compiled the first ever Burmese-English dictionary.
12 April 1867 – Samuel Marinus Zwemer was born in Vriesland, Michigan, USA. He became known as the Apostle to Islam. He was an American missionary to Muslims in the Middle East.
The full Day by Day Calendar of Missionary History is taken from The Greatest Century of Missions book, by Dr. Peter Hammond. This book is available
from Christian Liberty Books (CLB), PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, Fax: 086-551-7490, Email: admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za and Website: http://www.christianlibertybooks.co. za. To see the full article with pictures, click here.
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
mission@frontline.org.za
http://www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
http://www.ReformationSA.org
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