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Odilon Massolar Chaves is a retired Methodist pastor, with a doctorate in Theology and History from the Methodist University of São Paulo.
His thesis dealt with the Methodist
revival in England in the eighteenth century and its contribution as a paradigm
for our days.
He was editor of the
official Methodist newspaper and coordinator of the Theology Course.
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Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Highlights
of the book's chapters
· Early Methodism
in India
·
Founder
of Methodism in India and Mexico
·
First
missionary bishop in India and Malaysia
· An
extraordinary missionary
· Pioneer
Medical Missionary in India
·
An
Indian pioneer of Methodism in Singapore
·
School
and church planter in India and Indonesia
·
Missionary
in India and best-selling author
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Introduction
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"Extraordinary Methodist Missionaries in India" is a 30-page book that recounts the selflessness, pioneering and immense dedication to the Gospel of six missionaries and one missionary in India, in very difficult times.
The first missionary in India, a few days after arriving, had to flee to the mountains with his wife. His house was destroyed. Other missionaries died. He was presumed dead in the USA. But he continued the work and was still a pioneer of Methodism in Mexico, later.
The name of the book is based on the title given by the Methodist Church to Stanley Jones in 1959: "Extraordinary Missionary". It is a title that everyone deserves for the immense dedication in India.
The chapters of the book are divided as follows: Beginning of Methodism in India; founder of Methodism in India and Mexico; First missionary bishop in India and Malaysia; an extraordinary missionary; Pioneer medical missionary in India; an Indian pioneered Methodism in Singapore; Planter of schools and churches in India and Indonesia; missionary in India and best-selling author.
Stories that awaken us to give due importance to the missionaries who dedicated themselves to sowing the seed of the Gospel based on Wesleyan Methodism.
Stories that awaken
us to missionary work.
The Author
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Highlights of the book's chapters
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Early Methodism in India
Subsequently,
Methodist missionary James Mills Thoburn was sent to India by his church's
Missionary Society in 1859.
"Initially, Thoburn worked with William Butler doing village evangelism and church planting in northern India"
There was aSepoy Rebellion, just
ten weeks after the Butlers began their work onBareilly. They
were forced to flee to the mountains, where inNaini Tal, found
refuge for several months
First missionary
bishop in India and Malaysia
Thoburn went to India
as a missionary in 1859. "Initially,
Thoburn worked with William Butler, the first American Methodist missionary in India who had arrived in
1856, doing village evangelism and church planting in northern India
An extraordinary missionary
In 1959, Stanley Jones was named by the Methodist
Church "missionary extraordinaire." He was called a "conciliator"
because of his efforts in Burma, Korea and the Belgian Congo, between China and
Japan, between Japan and the United States.
Pioneer Medical
Missionary in India
Her success gave her a position at court to attend to women's health and,
in her spare time, to work in a clinic and a school for girls. She took the
opportunity to teach that Christ had come to deliver women from sin and elevate
their position. She has been called the "pioneering medical woman in
India."
An Indian
pioneer of Methodism in Singapore
In
1873, Oldham was invited to the preaching tents of the American visitor Daniel
O. Fox in India. The teachings of these Methodist missionaries, led by Bishop William Taylor, led to his conversion and he became a Methodist.
School and church planter in India and Indonesia
"He was president of the Epworth League Office of the Conference
and district superintendent from 1930 to 1952. He also served on the faculty of
Jean Hamilton Theological School in 1924, where training was provided to preach
the Gospel in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil."
Missionary in India
and best-selling author
David was an author
of books on emotional healing and a pioneer in the field of Christian
counseling. As such, he was recognized at the Cristian Counseling congress in
1992. "Along with James Dobson, Larry Crabb and Gary Collins, he received
the special 'Paraklesis' award
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Early
Methodism in India
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Subsequently,
Methodist missionary James Mills Thoburn was sent to India by his church's
Missionary Society in 1859.
"Initially, Thoburn worked with William Butler doing village evangelism and church planting in northern India"
The history of Methodism in
India begins in 1856 with the arrival of William Butler from the USA. He began
the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church at a site called Bareilly.
Subsequently,
Methodist missionary James Mills Thoburn was sent to India by his church's
Missionary Society in 1859.
"Initially, Thoburn worked with William Butler doing village evangelism and church planting in northern India."[1]
Thoburn invited American Methodist evangelist William Taylor to come to India to lead a revival and the expansion of Methodist work.
In 1864, Methodist work
grew and was renamed the India Mission Conference.
"The year 1870 marked
the beginning of a new era in the history of Methodism in India. The famous
evangelist William Taylor was invited to India to hold special revival
meetings. It was this that changed the course of Methodism in India and took
our church outside its provincial borders and made it a national factor."[2]
The year 1870 is remarkable
in Methodist history in India, for it marked the arrival of the first female
missionaries of the Foreign Women's Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church "to commence their wonderful work of education among the
girls and women of India; and Clara Swain, to inaugurate medical work among
women". [3]
"Between 1871 and
1900, the Methodist Episcopal Church expanded to become a national Church
throughout South and Southeast Asia, with work carried out in twelve languages,
extending from Manila to Quetta and from Lahore to Madras; and the Christian community
increased from 1,835 to 111,654."[4]
It was the evangelism in
the villages of northern India, however, that resulted in the baptism of large
numbers of people among the depressed classes.
Thus began the work of the
mass movement, which brought several hundred thousand converts to our church in
the rural areas.
In 1904, Rev. Samuel
Solomom Pakianathan was sent by the London Missionary Society to the town of
Dornakal, the location of the Telugu people, in the state of Andhra Pradesh,
India. The forest was full of wild animals. He went alone, without knowing anyone,
and learned to read and write Telugu in two months. He lived for a good part in
a tent, in a tree. The forest became his home and service to God. A
collector met him and gave him many acres of land and so came the buildings.
Pakianathan, finally, can take his wife and children.
"In 1981, the
Methodist Church in India was established as an 'affiliated autonomous' church
in relation to The United Methodist Church."[5]
The Church currently
numbers approximately 648,000. They are: 2460 local churches, 2156 pastors
and 10 pastors.
The Methodist Church in
India "runs 102 boarding schools and 155 village schools in which more
than 60,000 children are enrolled. 89 residential hostels serve 6,540 boys and
girls. The Church also operates 19 institutions of higher and vocational education,
25 hospitals and health centers, and many welfare and community development
programs in the country." [6]
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Founder of Methodism in India and Mexico
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There was aSepoy Rebellion, just
ten weeks after the Butlers began their work onBareilly. They
were forced to flee to the mountains, where inNaini Tal, found
refuge for several months
William Butler (1818-1899) was born in Ireland where he went
through a conversion experience.
"Orphaned
early in life, he was for some years under the care of a great-grandmother, who
used to induce the boy to set up a chair for a pulpit, and, dressed in a makeshift surplice, read the day's
lessons from the prayer
book of the Church of
England. This service was a great comfort to the old woman,
who could no longer attend church." [7]
Her conversion
and her connection with the Methodist movement was brought about by a woman,
who had entered into a conscious religious experience under the influence of
the Methodists."[8]
In 1842, he learned that an American preacher
was speaking in a Methodist chapel. "He was impressed by the speaker's
clear presentation of the gospel. Its text was Isaiah 42:3: "A bruised
reed shall not break, and a smoking wick shall not be quenched." He
understood the mercy of Christ and gave his heart and soul to God.
Butler attended the Wesleyan
Theological Center in Didsbury, England, for two years. Then he went to the
west of Ireland, where most of the people were Catholic. He was successful in
revivals and preached in other parts of Ireland. He immigrated to America in
1850."[9]
"His first
sermon was preached at St John's Market, Liverpool, in 1839. He joined
the Irish Methodist Conference in 1844. After three years of theological
study, he joined the Irish Wesleyan Conference and was ordained in 1848." [10]
"He immigrated to the U.S. in 1850. After being widowed twice, he wrote to Clementina Rowe in Ireland, who had been influenced by his preaching a few years earlier. Clementina crossed the ocean and they were married in 1854."[11]
He was the founder of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in India and later the Mission in Mexico.
"The Butlers were probably the best-known Methodist missionary couple in the late nineteenth century."[12] William was considered the best person to found Methodist work in Mexico in 1873. [13]
But first, he went to India.
"After a few years, the project of a mission in India was taken up by the Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and appeals were made to the ministry for someone to volunteer to begin the work. But for more than three years, no one fit for the position was found. Butler shared the anxiety of the secretaries and bishops that the venture would not fail for lack of a suitable leader. Because of his four young children, he was hesitant to volunteer. But at last his sense of the great need of the people of India led him to consult with the authorities, and in November, 1855, [4] he was appointed by Bishop Matthew Simpson as superintendent of the new mission. His wife supported him in his determination. Leaving two boys at school in the USA, the family left the USA in April 1856".[14]
Arriving in Calcutta in 1856, William Butler found that the people were intensely hostile to Christianity.
There was a "Sepoy Rebellion, just ten weeks after the Butlers began their work onBareilly. They were forced to flee to the mountains, where inNaini Tal, found refuge for several months. Your Closest Missionary Neighbors, MissionPresbyterian, on the other side of theGanges, who had fled fromFuttyghurin search of safety, were massacred, Butler's house was burned, and aStrengtherected to him in the public square at Bareilly, the rebel leader expressed his great disappointment when he found that the missionary had escaped."[15]
In the USA, they even published his death.
As soon
as peace was restored, work resumed. It was reinforced by missionaries from the
USA, and in 1864 the Mission was organized into an Annual
Conference. Butler's plan for the missions was to avoid controversy.
The Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church came to assist in this
work. The principal cities of the two provinces were supplied with foreign
missionaries, and from these centers the work was pushed to the surrounding
villages.
Butler's
health made it necessary for him to leave India. He left for the United States
in January 1865 aboard a sailboat." [16]
In 1872, Butler was appointed overseer of a
mission to be founded in Mexico. He arrived in Mexico in February 1873. Within
six years, the mission was well established, and Butler returned to the U.S. in
poor health.
Two
sons continued the work of their parents. John W. Butler and
Clementina Butler.[17]
Butler and his wife revisited India in 1883
and 1884 to review the progress of the work. They also visited Mexico.
One
of the books he wrote was "THE LAND OF THE VEDA".
After retiring, "he liked to
read weekly field reports. He also continued to write supplications for church
missions, one of his last efforts being to secure chapels in some villages of
India.
Butler died onOld Orchard, Maine, on August 18, 1899. He is
survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters. The presidentPorfirio Díaz, from Mexico, was one of the first to send a letter of condolence to
Butler's son, Dr. John W. Butler, who continued the work begun by his
father."[18]
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First missionary
bishop in India and Malaysia
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Thoburn went to India
as a missionary in 1859. "Initially,
Thoburn worked with William Butler, the first American Methodist missionary in India who had arrived in
1856, doing village evangelism and church planting in northern India
James Mills Thoburn
(1836 -1922) was born inSt. Clairsville, Ohio, USA. He was the son
of immigrants from Ireland.
He "graduated
from theAllegheny CollegePosted onMeadville,
Pennsylvania, in 1857, beginning his Methodist preaching
ministry in the same year at the Pittsburgh Conference. He wasSalary elderin 1858". [19]
He was "sent to
India by the Missionary Society of his church in 1859. He married widow Sarah
Minerva (Rockwell) Downey in 1861. She died in 1862 after giving birth to a
son. [20]
Missionary career
Thoburn went to India
as a missionary in 1859. "Initially, Thoburn worked with William Butler, the first American
Methodist missionary in India who had arrived in 1856, doing village evangelism
and church planting in northern India. Dissatisfied with the pace of expansion
and the restrictions of the courtesy arrangements, Thoburn invited the American
Methodist independent evangelist, William Taylor, to come to India to lead a revival and the expansion of Methodist
work." [21]
"Thoburn left
Lucknow in 1874 to serve as a missionary, without pay, for the Missionary
Society in Calcutta, and was associated with this missionary enterprise in
1888." [22]
It was parked
successively inNynee Tal,Moradabad,LucknoweKolkata, where he founded
theKolkata Boys' Schoolin 1877". [23]
Thoburn he preached in native and European languages. "He built the
largest church in India at that time. As Elder President of the Indian
Conference, he preached for a time inSimla, the summer capital of India, and was for five
years editor ofIndian Witness”. [24]
"In 1874, Thoburn began a thirteen-year
pastorate of the flourishing church founded by Taylor in Calcutta. In 1880,
while speaking in the United States, Thoburn met and married Anna Jones, a
would-be medical missionary, in Philadelphia. He returned to India two days
after the wedding; She followed two years later, after completing medical
school." [25] Anna
died in 1902.
In Calcutta, Thoburn built a church, which was twice packed every Sunday.
"Thoburn established the Burma Mission in 1879." [26]
At the 1888 Methodist
Episcopal General Conference held in New York City, "Thoburn was elected
the first missionary bishop of India and Malaya . he was committed to an effort
to "put India at the heart of America."[27]
"Thoburn began Methodist work in Rangoon in 1879 and in Singapore
in 1885. In 1888 he was elected bishop, with episcopal responsibility for the
whole of India and Methodist work in Burma and Malaya." [28]
Thoburn was also a
writer. He published the book entitled 'My Missionary Apprenticeship' in
1884, a history of twenty-five years in India and a collection entitled Missionary
Sermons in 1888.
Among other works
are: Christless Nations (1894), The Church of Pentecost (1899), Life of
Isabella Thoburn (1903), The Christian Conquest of India (1906), India and
South Asia (1907) and Heroes of God, Our Examples (1914).
Thoburn retired in
1908 inMeadville. He died on November
28, 1922, at the age of 86.[29]
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An extraordinary missionary
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In 1959, Stanley Jones was named by the Methodist
Church "missionary extraordinaire." He was called a
"conciliator" because of his efforts in Burma, Korea and the Belgian
Congo, between China and Japan, between Japan and the United States.
Eli Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 3, 1884 and passed away at the age of 89 on January 25, 1973, in India.
His father was an alcoholic. At the age of five, Jones began attending the Methodist Episcopal Church's Sunday School. He was deeply converted at the age of 17.
He thought he was a lawyer, but at the age of 23 he went as a Methodist missionary to India, where he stayed for more than 50 years. He was also a missionary in China.
He was educated in Baltimore schools and studied at
Asbury College. In 1907 he went as a Methodist missionary to India where he
stayed for more than 50 years. He was also a missionary in China.
"E.
Stanley Jones marked the history of missions"[30] and was considered the extraordinary missionary of
the twentieth century.
In 1911, he married a fellow missionary, Mabel
Lossing, with whom he had a daughter, Eunice, who later married an American
Methodist bishop.[31]
In 1938, Time magazine called Stanley Jones "the world's
greatest missionary evangelist." For others, he was the greatest Christian
missionary since the apostle Paul.
This effort to contextualize Christianity for India
was the subject of his work "The Christ of the Indian Road," which
sold more than a million copies worldwide upon its publication in 1925.
He was called "the world's greatest
missionary evangelist" by Time magazine in 1938.[32] This applies to
the twentieth century.
He was an advisor and friend to Mahatma Gandhi
and Franklin D. Roosevelt and an inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., among
other world leaders.[33]
At least twice, Stanley Jones was in Brazil, in Campinas
in the 20s, and in the sixties, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in a
Ministerial of the Methodist Church.[34]
He wrote 28 books and was nominated twice for
the Nobel Peace Prize.
When he was elected bishop in the USA, he
resigned soon because his ministry was to be a missionary.
He created the first Christian Asham in the
world.
Stanley Jones wrote books that inspire us, among
them, "Jesus is Lord"; "Conversion" and "The Christ of
all paths".
Stanley Jones continues to attract many readers.
In 2018, three million copies of his books were sold.[35]
In 1959, Stanley Jones was appointed by the Methodist Church as an
"extraordinary missionary," which is the title of the book.
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Pioneer Medical
Missionary in India
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Her success gave her a position at court to attend to women's health and,
in her spare time, to work in a clinic and a school for girls. She took the opportunity
to teach that Christ had come to deliver women from sin and elevate their
position. She has been called the "pioneering medical woman in
India."
Clara A. Swain (1834-1910) was born in Elmira, New York, USA. At the age
of eight, he joined the Methodist Church, a decision that influenced his
Christian life.
At the age of 21, Swain began teaching private students in Castile.
Later, he moved to Canandaigua, New York, to teach in a school, developing an
interest in Medicine, to take care of the sick. She graduated from Woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Her call to service in India came from the need to have a quality female
doctor for the high caste of women in India. Swain arrived in Bareilly, India,
in 1869, where he spent 27 years caring for women and children and
evangelizing.
In her first year, she trained 17 medical students to help her with
patients and treated at least 1,300 patients. By 1874, she had built the
Women's Hospital and School of Medicine, the first in all of Asia.
Despite resistance to Western medicine, the mission was successful. She
became a palace doctor in Rajputana State.
Work began in Bareilly with a clinic for women and children that evolved
to become Sara Swain Hospital, the oldest and largest Methodist hospital in
India.[36]
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An Indian pioneer of Methodism in Singapore
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In 1873, Oldham was invited to the preaching tents
of the American visitor Daniel O. Fox in India. The teachings of these
Methodist missionaries, led by Bishop William Taylor, led to his conversion and he became a Methodist.
William Fitzjames
Oldham (1854-1937) was born in Bangalore, India. As a baby, he lost his mother
and was breastfed and raised by an Indian woman.
His father, James
Oldham, was a Catholic and an officer in the British Army in India.
William Fitzjames Oldham went to study in the USA.
"Oldham got aBachelor's
Degreeby theBoston
Universityand
aMaster's
DegreebyAllegheny
College, and became a
government surveyor. He was handpicked for the Great Trigonometric Survey of
India, a key 19th-century survey of India and its adjacent lands."[37]
In 1873, Oldham was
invited to the preaching tents of the American visitor Daniel O. Fox in India.
The teachings of these Methodist missionaries, led by Bishop William Taylor, led to his conversion and he became a Methodist.
In 1876 he obtained
his license as a local preacher and was able to preach in Methodist churches.
"During this time, he met Marie Augusta
Mulligan (1857-1938); The two later married and began working as educational
missionaries. [1] In 1879, Oldham traveled to Allegheny College in
Meadville, Pennsylvania, for training; Marie later traveled to the United
States to study at Mt Holyoke College.[38]
In 1879, he was sent to study at Alleghany College
in Pennsylvania, USA. His wife Marie Augusta only went to the U.S. when William
was well off financially. In 1883, he graduated from Boston University with a
degree in theology
In 1883, Oldham joined the Michigan Annual Conference of the M.E. Church.
"He also served for a time under the auspices
of the Ohio Conference. He was the founder of a missionary ministry in
Singapore. The Oldhams were then appointed to accompany Bishop Thoburn to begin
pioneering Methodist work in Singapore. They arrived on 7 February 1885 on the
SS Khandalla and were met by Charles Phillips. The Oldhams' work included
services in English at City Hall, lectures in homes, evangelistic meetings at
the Christian Institute in Waterloo Street, and regular street preaching."
[39]
In Singapore, Oldham "found access to the
Chinese merchant population through schools; he established what became the
first of a large number of Methodist schools in what was then British Malaya
and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), as well as the first Methodist Church in
Singapore."[40]
With the conversions, in 1885, he organized the
Wesley Methodist Church and was pastor of the first chapel built in Peninsular
Malaysia.
Two girls' schools were established: Girls'
Methodist School and Fairfield Methodist School between 1887-1888.
The mission also developed a
clinic and hostels for homeless children.[41]
In 1887, missionary Sophia Blackmore organized a
Methodist school for girls.
William became ill, obtained a leave of absence, and
returned to the U.S. in 1889. Later, he was a pastor in the USA. In 1904, he
was consecrated bishop of northern India and Malaysia.
In 1912, he was appointed secretary of the Methodist
Council of Foreign Missions. In 1916, he was elected general superintendent and
assumed supervision of South America until his retirement in 1928.
March 1 is designated as the Founder's Day of the
Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. William wrote several books and laid the
spiritual and intellectual foundations for many generations in Asia. He is
remembered as a friend, father and teacher of the Anglo-Chinese family.[42]
"He was a strong supporter of the church's
early unity efforts in the Philippines and supported the Interdenominational
Committee on Cooperation in Latin America. In India, Southeast Asia, and the
Philippines, he encouraged the development of educational and social ministries
as a compliment to evangelistic work." [43]
His primary contribution to "missiological
thinking in the Methodist Episcopal Church was in three related areas:
semi-self-sufficient missions, education, and native leadership." [44]
He
died on March 27, 1937, Glendale,
California, USA.
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School and church planter
in India and Indonesia
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"He was president of the Epworth League
Office of the Conference and district superintendent from 1930 to 1952. He also
served on the faculty of Jean Hamilton Theological School in 1924, where
training was provided to preach the Gospel in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil."
Rev. Pakianathan, also known asSolomon Swamidason Pakianathan (1881-1961) “was an
important Indian-born Methodist Christian leader who dedicated his life to
religious and educational service in Southeast Asia, particularly in
Malaysia."[45]
At a meeting of the London Missionary Society, Rev. Pakianathan volunteered to be the first missionary in India.
In 1904, he was sent to the town of Dornakal, the location of the Telugu people, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The forest was full of wild animals. He went alone, without knowing anyone, and learned to read and write Telugu in two months. He lived for a good part in a tent, in a tree. The forest became his home and service to God. A collector met him and gave him many acres of land and so came the buildings.
Pakianathan, finally, can take his wife and children. His wife knew herbal medicines for all ailments. When there was a cholera epidemic, Pakianathan and his wife went to live in a shed to care for the sick about to die. They didn't get sick. This fact and testimony have led many to the Church.
In 1908, Pakianathan went to Palembang in South Sumatra, Indonesia, where he opened an English language school and a night school for Arabs. He planted churches and schools (1905-1918) in Medan, Buitenzorg and Palembang in Sumatra.
"Encouraged to study for Christian ministry, Pakianathan joined the Malayan Conference in 1915 and was ordained a deacon in 1918 and an elder on January 8, 1922." [46]
He was married to Kanagamany Daniel.
In 1927, the Malaya Methodist Church made an attempt to develop education in a rural area in Banting, Malaysia.
In 1930, Rev. Pakianathan, Rev. J.A. Supramaniam, and Rev. J.J. Kovilpillai were appointed District Superintendents.
"He was president of the Epworth League Office of the Conference and district superintendent from 1930 to 1952. He also served on the faculty of Jean Hamilton Theological School in 1924, where training was provided to preach the Gospel in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil." [47]
"Rev. Pakianathan, like his predecessors and those in Christian ministry in the Methodist Church, had two careers as a teacher and pastor, and was self-reliant. This practice continued until the appointment of Rev. C.A. Watson as the first full-time pastor of the Tamil Methodist Church of Singapore in 1965. Rev. Pakianathan entered the full-time ministry in 1931 when he gave up his teaching position."[48]
After Pakianathan's pioneering spirit, the American Methodist missionaries arrived.[49]
He passed away in 1961, at the age of 80.
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Missionary in India
and best-selling author
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David was an author
of books on emotional healing and a pioneer in the field of Christian
counseling. As such, he was recognized at the Cristian Counseling congress in
1992. "Along with James Dobson, Larry Crabb and Gary Collins, he received
the special 'Paraklesis' award
David A. Seamands (1922-2006) was born in India. He was the son
of missionary parents.
He graduated from theAsbury University, in theDrew Theological Seminaryand in theHartford Seminary
Foundation. He has also received honorary degrees from
Asbury University and theAsbury Theological Seminary.
He and his wife,
"Helen, served as United Methodist missionaries in India from 1946 to
1962."[50]
He then served as
pastor at the Methodist Church in Wilmore for 22 years.
He was a professor
and rector of Asbury Seminary in Kentuchy. He retired in 1992.
David was an author
of books on emotional healing and a pioneer in the field of Christian
counseling. As such, he was recognized at the Cristian Counseling congress in
1992. "Along with James Dobson, Larry Crabb and Gary Collins, he received
the special 'Paraklesis' award.[51]
"Seamands was
also a delegate to six General Conferences, beginning in 1976. In four of them,
he presented the minority report to the legislative section that deals with
issues of human sexuality. He was also responsible for the founding of the Council
of Evangelical Missions. In 1983, the Missionary Society for United Methodists was organized."
[52]
His books have sold
millions of copies. Among them are: "Healing for emotional traumas";
"The healing power of grace," etc.
In his book "The
Healing of Memories," he said, "The ultimate goal is not simply to
relieve past pain or some level of mental and emotional sanity, but growth into
Christlikeness and a work of maturation in sanctification and true holiness."
In a synopsis it was
explained that "The book Healing for Emotional Traumas by David Seamands
presents the idea that God wants to break the chains that bind you to a past of
painful experiences and free you, healing your traumas and restoring you to
perfect emotional balance.
The book Healing for
Emotional Traumas David Seamands admirably addresses biblical teaching with
Christian psychology and common sense, writing about anger, guilt, depression,
inferiority and perfectionism mania. The book Healing for Emotional Trauma focuses
in a practical and direct way on the issue of pain that endures, showing how
you can achieve permanent liberation. Healing for Emotional Traumas: a
must-read book for everyone who wants to be free from constant inner
restlessness and the emotional traumas of the past. A remarkable contribution
by Dr. David Seamands to our understanding of inner healing."[53]
He died at the age of
84. The funeral service was at Wilmore United Methodist Church, where he was
pastor.
At the time of his
passing, he was survived by Sharon Irvine and husband Peter, OK., Stephen
Seamands, and wife Carol, Wilmore and Deborah Mostad and husband Keith, Ohio,
nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[2] worldmethodistcouncil.org/asia/name/india-methodist-church
[3] worldmethodistcouncil.org/asia/name/india-methodist-church
[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Church_in_India
[5] https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Church_in_India
[6]https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Church_in_India
[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[9]
https://thealabamabaptist.org/heroes-of-the-faith-william-butler/
[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[11]
https://www.bu.edu/
missiology/missionary-biography/a-c/butler-william-1818-1899-and-clementina-rowe-1820-1913/
[12]Ditto.
[13]Ditto.
[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[15]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[16]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[17]https://www.bu.edu/
missiology/missionary-biography/a-c/butler-william-1818-1899-and-clementina-rowe-1820-1913/
[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/William_Butler_(missionary)
[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[20]
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/thoburn-james-mills-1836-1922/
[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[28]
https://pt.findagrave.com/memorial/56336607/james_mills-thoburn
[29]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mills_Thoburn
[31]
https://www.ultimato.com.br/conteudo/stanley-jones-1884-1973-o-maior-missionario-do-seculo-20
[32]
https://www.abingdonpress.com/product/9781501871283/
[33]
https://www.plenitudedistribuidora.com.br/produto/o-caminho-stanley-jones-85797
[34]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Stanley_Jones
[35]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Stanley_Jones
[36] Search: http://xntdnn.azurewebsites.net/gcsrw3/Leadership/WomeninUMChistory.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Swain
http://www.fofweb.com/History
http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/no-rest-for-a-weary-clara-swain-11630553.html
[37] https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/William_Fitzjames_Oldham
[38]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fitzjames_Oldham
[39]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fitzjames_Oldham
[40]
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/n-o-p-q/oldham-william-fitzjames-1854-1937/
[41] https://www.liquisearch.com/methodist_church_in_singapore/history
[42] *
Peninsular Malay is a large peninsula in Southeast Asia and includes Thailand,
Myanmar, Singapore, and Malaysia.
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Congress/Prints and Photographs Division/Washington. Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/12678842233
Search: http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/n-o-p-q/oldham-william-fitzjames-1854-1937/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fitzjames_Oldham
http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/n-o-p-q/oldham-william-fitzjames-1854-1937/
http://www.methodist.org.sg/index.php/about-us/our-church
[43]
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/n-o-p-q/oldham-william-fitzjames-1854-1937/
[44]
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/n-o-p-q/oldham-william-fitzjames-1854-1937/
[45] AI-Powered Overview
[46]
https://dcbasia.org/biography/pakianathan-solomon-swamidason
[47]
https://dcbasia.org/biography/pakianathan-solomon-swamidason
[48]
https://dcbasia.org/biography/pakianathan-solomon-swamidason
[49] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Church_in_Indonesia
http://www.tamilmethodist.sg/index.php/about-us/heritage/pastor-roll
http://www.methodistchurch.org.my/newsmaster.cfm?&menuid=6&action=view&retrieveid=195
http://growingupintelukanson.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/a-brief-history-of-acs-teluk-anson.html
http://www.seletartmc.org/ourhistory/
http://www.methodistchurch.org.my/newsmaster.cfm?&menuid=6&action=view&retrieveid=578
http://worldmethodistcouncil.org/about/member-churches/name/indonesia-methodist-church-north/http://images.library.yale.edu/divinitycontent/dayrep/Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church.%20Malaysia%20Conference%20%201930%20v39.pdf
[51]https://www.hagerandcundifffunerals.com/
obituaries/david-a-seamands
[52] https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/David_Seamands
[53]
https://www.magazineluiza.com.br/combo-livro-cura-para-os-traumas-emocionais-david-a-seamands-curando-as-feridas-da-alma-sheila-walsh-cristao-igreja-crista-amigo-evangelico/p/dhd48d10g5/li/liao/
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