European missionaries

Irene Petrie: Missionary to Kashmir Written by Ashley Carus-Wilson, this book is a biography of Irene Petrie, a missionary who went abroad to India for four year, and died during her time there. Carus-Wilson is sister to Petrie, and wrote this book for the purpose of ensuring that her sister was remembered and honored by the community. The chapter being examined is entitled, “A Winter in Lahore”, and details Petrie’s first arrival to India and her mission work thereafter. The audience of this text

Midterm Movies and books about missionaries haven’t portrayed missionaries in a positive light. Fiction writers and movie producers have led people on to believe, that missionaries are self-serving and as having specific intentions. One of the prime examples of misrepresenting a missionary; is the book called The Poisonwood Bible. I had to read The Poisonwood Bible in an English class. The Poisonwood Bible is the story of a missionary named Nathan Price and his family. Nathan was Reverend and he

they were 13 years old, they got to travel across the country with their church group and do mission work in Seattle, Washington by bus? Who can say that they traveled to New Jersey for one week and then headed up to New York the next while doing missionary work, two years after Seattle? These are just three examples of what I have

n Africa block of Islam that is estimated at being the fourth largest community of Muslims in the world. Out of 4,600,000 inhabitants there are less than 2,000 followers of Christ that exist within their ranks, making this group of Christians less than 0.05% of the population. With the majority of Kanuri being Orthodox Sunni Muslims, and having a strong belief in their Muslims faith stand to reason why "0 percent are evangelized" this is the finding of various studies and information gather

Music When does evangelization through Western Christian music provide the exact opposite of evangelization among indigenous cultures? Robin P. Harris, James R. Krabill, and Vida Chenoweth provide arguments based on the concept that Christian missionaries cannot fully preach the gospel through the utilization of Western Christian scriptural songs. While all three individuals provide logical arguments, I, under the acquirement of my viewpoint on the unspoken power of music on individuals, disagree

It’s common to not notice the tiny blessings of each day. Call it luck, God, good karma, whatever you want, but sometimes things just go right. Other times those lucky instances are so impactful that we have no choice but notice them. I attribute these miracles to God, though I have not always done so. When I began high school my belief in God was very basic, limited to the assumption that there could be no other possible explanation for the world around me. This reasoning worked for a while, but

• In the introduction, the author wrote that California was a happy place which was not true. The article Franciscan Missions in Alta California, explains that the missionaries brought hardships to the people of California killing thousands of people by the mission system. The Spaniards brought diseases and drastic lifestyle changes that decreased the number of Native people. • The author mentions that hostile Indians made travel dangerous, except for the brave and well-armed. Yet, the Natives would

January 1, 2013 is the day my life changed. I'm from a small town in Florida where everybody knew everybody and everybody else's business. I knew everybody’s car, house, address, and about every phone number. It was safe to say that for the first thirteen years of my life, I travelled nowhere and didn't see anybody but the everyday faces in this town. I learned to love this town mostly because I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about not knowing where I was going or not knowing people. It

In class we discussed various meanings for what it means to be a missionary. Overall we came to the general conclusion on the first day of class 09/07/2016 that a missionary is someone who goes to a different community to help fulfill some sort of purpose. The words italicized is what we as a class decided are integral parts of the identity and mission of a missionary. In addition to this baseline definition we also discussed possible reasons in which one may feeled compelled to take on a mission

Bonjou! I would like to thank you so much for supporting me on my third trip to Haiti! This trip was such an amazing experience and incredible opportunity to serve; it flew by way too fast! It’s sad coming to the realization that my trip is over, but also so amazing looking back at all of my pictures! (All 2,421 of them! phew!) I would love to share with you what we did there, and how it turned out completely different and way better than anyone on my team could have imagined. When we arrived