The Mormon Missionary Of Hawaii

Five missionaries, one plane, the Bible, and the Ecuadorian jungle;Elisabeth Elliot’s biography Through Gates of Splendor shows Jim Elliot’s experience in the Ecuadorian jungle. Jim and his four friends venture into the jungles of Ecuador to preach the bible to the fierce tribe of the Aucas. they manage to win the hearts of the Aucas and they preach the bible and manage to win some souls and baptize some Aucas. Unfortunately, not all Aucas believed what they were doing was right and they killed the missionaries. Elisabeth’s book Through Gates of Splendor teaches that in order to be a missionary, oneself needs or should have dedication and patience.

People and religion are a part of everyday life. The world is sure to be empty without the existence of God’s creation. When people and religion are viewed as different, the history, beliefs, and practice are formed unrealistically by outsider, more so than an insider. In an interview with a LDS, the author attempts to write and summarize a Mormon‘s journey through life with God and others.


To be a missionary in early Christian times was a very dangerous and risky thing to do. Before Constantine ordered the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, Christians were persecuted for their beliefs. So to go out and openly preach their faith and even try and turn people away from the worship of their original gods was something that could ultimately end up with you being executed - which is something many early missionaries were (martyred). However, many faithful servants of Jesus (such as the apostles) did it anyway, because they believed that spreading the Word of God was more important than anything else.

There was an eagerness to spread Christianity to those that hadn’t had a chance to receive this message. Catholic missionaries felt that it was their certain duty to do so, in order to avoid damnation. But not everyone was open

Jesus was the perfect missionary. Jesus went to different places and taught the word of God. Jesus drew people unto him. Jesus told his disciples, that if they follow him, he would make them fishermen of men. Jesus taught anywhere. Jesus delivered the word so profoundly.

  But the missionaries wanted to reach these people, share the Gospel and eventually even establish churches!  So, in January 1956, Jim Elliot and a group of four other men built a camp near the Auca village.

At the end of the expedition, on August 30, 1869, Powell and his remaining crew reach safety at a Mormon settlement named Callville, located at the south of the Virgin River. The remaining crew come across a man named Mr. Asa; who is also played by Cody Sloan. Mr. Asa comes to the men and offers to help take them back to the Mormon settlement. He says that he will tell everyone that he found Powell and his remaining crew members. The audience is left with a bit of a cliff hanger there. Will Powell and his men get the credit they deserve? What happened to the rest of his crew? We were left to decide ourselves.

First, pioneer missionaries such as the famous David livingstone pave the way for settler missionaries by planting the precious seeds of the gospel in the hearts of the people as they move from village to village, spreading the truth. David contributed Many things to the mission field in Africa by mapping the inland and helping to stop the fast growing slave industry. On his many journeys to reach people, he also treated their illnesses, taught them

The Pilgrims were a group of people who traveled from England. During their trip, they encountered many adversities and misfortunes. Thankfully, they landed safely. The first few days were tough for them. Imagine going to an unfamiliar place knowing that once you leave your homeland there will be nothing on the other side. These people felt that and were very scared. The Pilgrims suffered a lot in the first months. People were sick and helpless. The people were dying. Their only solution was to seek help.

As a result, thousands of commoners arrived Hawaii to cut and haul sandalwood to the beaches. Food production suffered and starvation left many Natives in violent deaths. By 1843, whalers arrived Hawaii about the same time as the missioners did and by that time whaling became common in Hawaii. While Hawaiian merchants and chiefs got richer from the whaling industry, most Native Hawaiians suffered greatly. Hawaiians were excellent merchants, and young men were hired as sailors. Large numbers of native sailors on their journey did not return. Prostitution flourished, and native women were left barren by the very diseases spread by others. In 1778, when Cook arrived the Islands, the native population decreased to 200,000 and 300,000. In the 1830s, the sugar industry was introduced to Hawaii and by the mid-19th century, the production of sugar flourished in Hawaii. American missioners and planters brought about great changes to political, cultural, economic, and religious life, and in 1840 a constitutional monarchy was established, stripping the Hawaii monarchy’s

In the first chapter of “Christianity Rediscovered” by Vincent J. Donovan he is introducing us to the idea that missionaries now have a poor reputation due to their history. He says “History has offered the opportunity to deflect and distort the meaning of missionary work in every age”. For a long time a missionary was a person spreading the word of God and after years of doing so we have diminished many different beliefs, practices, cultures and history. At the time it was thought to be the right thing, to spread out and share the gospel to help people find meaning and acceptance. In today’s age a missionary is a lot of different things, in many cases it is more focused on the health and physical wellbeing of the people. Many people still share the gospel through missionary work, but in other cases it is more of a material aid. Donovan introduces the book as a voyage of discovery he wants us to put our normal beliefs aside to see his perspective of living a missionaries life and struggling with the fact of if you are helping or hurting.

It has been said that worship is the core or center of mission. The ultimate goal of any missionary is to bring people (entire people groups) into a passionate, relationship with God. John Piper states,

Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish aristocrat and proposed to have a vocation as an expert officer. A cannonball smashed his leg in 1521, and his vocation was broken with it. Amid his long recuperation at the château of Loyola, he invested much energy perusing religious books, fasting and imploring. As an aftereffect of these studies, Ignatius chose to end up a fighter of Christ, and hung up his sword at the holy place of Mary in Montserrat. From 1522 to 1534, Loyola ventured out to religious communities and schools, concentrating on and asking in arrangement for an existence sanctified to Christ. Around the end of his graduate learns at the University of Paris, he and six companions who had been meeting for times of stretched out petition to

If the story took place without the missionaries then the story would not progress as fast and important events may not have occurred, like Okonkwo hanging himself after he killed the missionaries messenger (Achebe 207). Also the clan would not have had conflict with the missionaries so there would be no converts. But since the missionaries were present in the story the story had more important events which drew the reader in and gave the book a more steady

Missionary expansion throughout the centuries has taken a hard, often violent road. The expansion of Christianity begins with the adherents of Jesus Christ and ended with the premature demise of many of the disciples. In the centuries following the disciples, many missionaries were faced with percussion and death as the gospel was proclaimed. As missionary expansion occurs throughout the centuries, often times facing trial and difficulty, the question comes up; is the capital cost of missionary expansion worth the monetary value? This paper will highlight many trials that have been faced by three missionaries in particular and explain often by the words of these missionaries why the enormous cost of missionary expansion is worth the cost. The thesis of this paper is: everyone is called to preach the gospel; the calling of the missionary is called to live by faith even when facing difficulty.