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Alternate Titles: Plymouth Brethren Missionary Biographies, Christian Brethren Missionary Biographies, Brethren Assembly Missionary Biographies
Last Updated: 2008 June 04.
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| Serial | Topic | Description | Status |
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| Serial | Brethren Pioneers | ||
| Evg. Narayan Paul | He planted 200 Assemblies, baptized 4000 believers, saw 12000 saved. | Live | |
| Anthony Norris Groves | Called the father of faith missions. Plymouth Brethren missionary to Baghdad and India. | Stub | |
| V Nagal | German missionary to India. He learned the local language to write profound hymns. | Stub | |
| Handley Bird | Missionary to India. Brought in revival to South India. | Stub | |
| E H Noel | Missionary to India. Brought in revival to South India. | Stub | |
| K V Simon | Great Brethren Poet. He was tried and excommunicated by the denominational Church for his faith. | Stub | |
| M E Cherian | A pioneer missionary. He threw away the only job that sustained his poor family. He lived on wild yams cooked using wood skin scarped from poles nearby. His suffering lead to the planting of hundreds of assemblies in a virtually unreached state. | Stub | |
| Albert Fairweather | He kindled missions in Kenya when his country men did not support him because he was not full time there. | Stub | |
| Johnson C Philip | An apologist who argued for creationism and consistency of Bible with science. A pioneer in Internet ministries, he opened theological learning to the masses who did not have the opportunity of full time seminary education. | Stub | |
| Jim Elliot | He was speared down for the Salvation of the hostile Aucas jungle tribe of Ecuador. His widowed wife Elizabeth Elliot later lived in the jungle to bring them to Christ. | Stub | |
| V M Mathew | An evangelist. He was turned away from a staunch religious family for accepting Christ, and wandered around like a vagabond in utter poverty. The glorious story of how the living God sustained him and his family. His God is our God! | Stub | |
| John Arulappen | He brought revival to South India. | Stub | |
| George Mueller | The prayer man of Bristol. His prayer life and stories of how God sustained his orphanage challenges everyone even to the present day. | Stub | |
| Serial | Church Fathers | ||
| Polycarp Of Smyrna | The Church father who was burned in Smyrna at a very old age. | Stub | |
| Saint Augustine | He fled from the girl friend declaring the old Augustine has died. | Stub | |
| Saint Athanasius | The first person to recognize the New Testament Canon in the present form. | Stub | |
| Serial | Christian Reformers | ||
| John Calvin | He propounded Calvinism and TULIP. | Stub | |
| Martin Luther | The reformer. He nailed the 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. Refused to budge when tried at the Diet of Worms. | Stub | |
| John Wycliffe | At his time, translating the Bible was a sin. He was persecuted for translating the Bible from Latin to English. | Stub | |
| Isaac Watts | At his time singing anything other than the psalms at Church meetings was considered sinful. He wrote around 750 hymns and is called the father of English Hymnody. One of his famous hymns is 'Joy to the world'. | ||
| John Bradford | Queen Mary, often called, bloody Mary, burned him. He had a sin list which he used to see himself as God saw him. | Stub | |
| Serial | Christian Missionaries | ||
| Robert Morrison | First protestant missionary to China. Pioneered the translation of Bible into Chinese. | Stub | |
| Hermann Gundert | Missionary to South India. His literary contributions finally saw missionaries going from there to all over India and outside. | Stub | |
| John Knox | He wanted either Scotland, or death. Known for Scottish revival. | Stub | |
| Hudson Taylor | Pioneer missionary to China. He got early in the morning and read the Bible in the dirty inns with a flickering candle. No wonder He changed China. | Stub | |
| Graham Staines | He and his two boys were burnt alive for Christ in India. | Stub | |
| William Carey | Called the father of the modern missionary movement. How he persevered through numerous hardships and setbacks to have the first convert after eight years. His trip from England to India, as well as any letter from there would take six months to reach on ship. He defied Dr. John Ryland who asked him to set down when he suggested missionary going. His pioneer effort lead to the 19th century being known as the golden era of foreign missions. | Stub | |
| David Livingstone | The pioneer missionary to Africa. In the light of the sacrifice of the cross, he humbled his own. | Stub | |
| Robert Moffat | He inspired David Livingstone with the famous words about Africa - "the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" | Stub | |
| John G Paton | The Captain said the cannibals would kill him. He said that he was already dead for Christ! | Stub | |
| Adoniram Judson | He lost everything for Burma. Out of his sacrifice arose hundreds of Churches and thousands of converts. A challenging life of uttermost sacrifice. | Stub | |
| Lottie Moon | Missionary to China. Baptist collect the Lottie Moon offering every year end for missions in her memory. | Stub | |
| John Wesley | The father of the Methodist movement. Strong emphasis on accountability and public confession of sins to one another. | Stub | |
| Mary Slessor | A woman missionary in the toughest situations to Nigeria. | Stub | |
| Serial | Christian Theologians | ||
| Louis Sperry Chafer | Authored the first even Systematic Theology from a Dispensationalist standpoint taking ten years. Founded the Dallas Theological Seminary | Stub | |
| J N Darby | One of the early Plymouth Brethren leaders. Proponent of Dispensationalism that transformed Christian Eschatology. | Stub | |
| Charles Ryrie | Another great contemporary dispensational writer. | Stub | |
| Serial | Christian Revivalists | ||
| D L Moody | The founder of Moody Bible Institute. Witness to the Great Fire of Chicago. Preacher on horse back to coal miners. | Stub | |
| Richard Wurmbrand | Imprisoned for Christ in Romania for fourteen years. Authored 'Tortured for Christ'. Founded 'Voice of Martyrs' | Stub | |
| Susanna Wesley | The praying mother of John and Charles Wesley | Stub | |
| George Whitefield | A reformer a leader of the Methodist movement. | Stub | |
| Serial | Contemporary Christians | ||
| Joni Eareckson Tada | Paralyzed, a living example of how Jesus can help anyone lead a life of fullness at all times. | Stub | |
| John F MacArthur | Author of famous MacArthur commentaries. Ardent proponent of Expository Preaching. Emphasized the role of repentance, lordship, discipleship, and fruit-bearing in relation to salvation. | Stub | |
| Billy Graham | He has reportedly preached the gospel and seen most people saved in Christian history. | Stub | |
| Charles R Swindoll | A popular preacher in the United States | Stub | |
| Charles Stanley | A popular Baptist American Preacher. Ministry tainted by divorce. | Stub | |
| Josh McDowell | Great apologist and author of 'Evidences That Demands A Verdict'. | Stub | |
| Bob Pritchett | He revolutionised Bible Study by producing Books as a digital library. | Stub | |
| Serial | Other Great People | ||
| Johannes Gutenberg | Invented the movable printing press and printed the first Bible. Invention ultimately sparked the Protestant Reformation. | Stub | |
| Flavius Josephus | Secular historian who was contemporary of Jesus Christ. Independently corroborates several aspects of Christianity. | Stub | |
| Emperor Constantine | The emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. | Stub | |
| Emperor Nero | The cruel ruler who persecuted Christians by burning them as lights in his garden, razing them with swords in horse mouths, throwing them to wild animals. | Stub | |
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