London Missionary Society

present ideas from the perspectives of my father, a missionary and my granduncle, the Right Reverend Datuk Bolly Lapok. Also I will share my experience of dealing with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Depression through poetry and spoken word and how those platforms impacted many who come across them. The key voices in this essay are Graham Tomlin, Stephen Bevans, Jin Huat Tan and William J. Abraham. The word “mission” is derived from a Latin word “missio” which means, to send, to release or to participate. It is more likely…

David Livingstone: God’s Missionary and Africa’s Explorer In this essay I will be discussing one of the most remarkable missionaries and one of Africa’s finest explorers, Dr. David Livingstone. Dr. Livingstone was from a small town called Blantyre in Scotland. Most of his life there, he worked in a cotton mill. He wanted to become a medical missionary and constantly had people that were discouraging him. That did not stop him from pursuing his dreams. In his life time Dr. Livingstone faced many…

According to Hayward, religion serves three different types of functions such as personal, social, and ecological. Hayward also explains about the term cults, which refers to a variation of christianity away from orthodoxy. Furthermore, there are four different types of cult such as individualistic, shamanistic, communal, and ecclesiastical. An organized system of religious beliefs always refers to a cult. Hayward mentions about some christian anthroplogical questions. Often, these questions…

Because of the political, social, and cultural reasons, Christianity did not have great influence in China. In the recent several hundred years, especially in the 1800s and 1900s, a lot of missionaries from the States and Great Britain came to China to share the gospel with Chinese people by building hospitals, schools, and churches. The missionaries not only heal people, providing education for children, but also provide food and living places for a lot of people in need. My home church in…

churches offer free meals or events for everyone to show the hospitality of Christians. It is important to welcome newcomers and care about them. However, though it is safe to stay inside of the church and have connections with the brothers and sisters in the church, Jesus command all of us to make disciples of all nation. It is not necessary to go to another country or even another continent to share God’s love like a lot of missionaries do, but beginning to communicate with non-Christian…

created the heavens and the earth but quickly the earth turned sour. The man he had created turned to sin even while in paradise but God was not caught off guard. God had a plan to reach a people dying from sin and that plan was Missions. So God sent the first missionary. The missionary did all the things missionaries do, he preached, taught, and he prayed for people and they were healed. Often as the missionary was out in public people would flock to him. Quickly he would be surrounded by a…

Facing the continuing decline of their population Native Americans called upon neighboring missionaries to aid them. This turning away from traditions was an added challenge to medicine men and traditional culture. Native Americans understood that European medicine came with the expectation of an earnest study of Christianity. Missionaries initially welcomed the desperate natives who were willing to study whichever religion in exchange for medical aid. In Oregon, the Whitman massacre is one…

I am a missionary. After only learning about missionaries from the olden days whose true motives were to colonize and conquer regions, this statement at first seemed inapplicable to my life. However, my feelings toward this statement completely changed after I went on my first mission trip to Nicaragua and met some villagers who will always remain dear to me. As the child of hardworking Indian immigrants, I have lived without fear of the outside world. My dad is a physician who earns a steady…

Mack and Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions was a very interesting book and I learned a lot about short-term missions from it. I liked how they used their personal stories in order to help get the point they were making across and because of this I was able to follow along well and was able to apply my personal experience with short-term missions because I was able to better understand the points they were making. Chapter one of Mack and Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions talks about how…

There is nothing more interesting than a Missionary. The Definition of a Missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. And no better way to find out about the life of a missionary is to find one and ask what is it like to be a missionary. When I asked if I could give him an interview of what his life and his in his life in ministry, and he said yes. As we started the interview we started off with simplest question ever,…