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From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all, honest. It helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. We see these men and women as fallible and human in their failures as well as their successes. These great leaders of missions are presented as real people,...

Indians had been weakened not only numerically but also spiritually. Many of those who became soldiers were enticed by the white mans’ liquor. King Philip’s War was a tragedy for the many Indians and whites directly involved as well as for the seventy-two-year-old John Eliot. He had poured decades of selfless service into his missionary work, and it was difficult to view the wreckage of the war. But he was not one to give up: “I can do little, yet I am resolved through the grace of Christ, I will
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