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ON This Day in MISSIONARY HISTORY
13 July 1813, Adoniram & Ann Judson, America’s first foreign missionaries, reached Rangoon.
Their hearts sank at the sights and the smells of the place. Burma was a resistant Buddhist nation, under a cruel and despotic king, who viciously opposed their work. The Judson’s 7-month old son died.
Adoniram was struck by fever, which left him close to death. One missionary excursion dragged into a nightmare that lasted 7 months, much of it afflicted by fever. Back in Rangoon, Ann was subjected to severe harassment and withstood a devastating plague of cholera which swept the city.
In 1824, war broke out between Great Britain and Burma. Although Adoniram Judson was an American, he was accused of being an English spy and incarcerated in “Death Prison” for 18 months. Adoniram was mistreated and tortured by the Burmese, confined with 50 others in the most atrocious conditions, filth and squalor. At night his feet were tied to a bamboo pole, which was raised above his head so that he was forced to sleep, if at all, with only his head and shoulders on the ground.
By the end of his incredible life, Adoniram Judson had established 63 Churches amongst the Karen tribe in Burma. Over 100 000 Karen people had been baptised.
The Karen people in Burma have remained steadfastin their Christian Faith despite severe persecution,an island of Christianity in a sea of Buddhism. We trust that American Churches are using this Missionary milestone to inspire Great Commission vision & action !
https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/…/ adoniram-and-ann… The full Day by Day Calendar of Missionary History is taken from The Greatest Century of Missions book, by Dr. Peter Hammond. This book is available
from Christian Liberty Books (CLB), PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, Fax: 086-551-7490, Email: admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za and Website: http://www.christianlibertybooks.co. za. To see the full article with pictures, click here.
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
mission@frontline.org.za
http://www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
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