they might make converts to God.”48 These early Christian missionaries were anonymous, bivocational, church-centered, cross-cultural laborers for the gospel. Though some operated as vocational evangelists, one remarkable element of early Christianity was its anonymous missionary element. It is intriguing that the two largest church communities in the western Roman Empire, Rome and Carthage, had anonymous origins. Observing this phenomenon, Henri Irénée Marrou writes: “The whole