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Excerpt from The College and the College Man in Foreign Missionary Achievement A In 1898 a band of five Yale students dev'oted a year to work among young people's societies, visiting seventy cities. One of these was John Lawrence Thurston, of Yale who later went to China and became the founder of the Changsha Mission. Brownell Gage, of Yale and his wife went out ih 1904, and later Warren B. Seabury, of the class of 1900, Edward H. Hume, of '97, and William J. Hart, offos. They have a medical mission. With dispensary and hospital, and a general school with thirty pupils. All these are but types of work which has from time to time been projected by college bands and college graduates. About th...
This new six-week study inspires students to look beyond themselves and see a world that desperately needs Christ. Students will learn about following the call of God and will experience firsthand accounts from other students who have joined God in his worldwide work.
This new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as a missionary for more than twenty years and each having taught missions in seminary. The authors begin by examining the contemporary context for missions, including the recognition that the world's mission fields are in constant and often rapid change. They then discuss aspects of preparing oneself for the mission field, beginning with home-front preparations and moving to on-the-field preparations. The final section deals with practical issues and challenges of missionary life.
Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.
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