Child indonesia missionary biography
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What People Are Saying
Reviews and Testimonials for Hidden Heroes missionär Stories
and other books by Rebecca Davis
I&#;m pausing from our school day to send you a quick note&#; THANK YOU for all the love and work you put into the book series &#;Hidden Heroes.&#; The stories have been such a blessing to our family! . . . They have just really been exactly what inom wanted to find! inom love that they&#;re true stories and they read aloud SO WELL!! The end of chapter Scripture and discussion questions are so great. I cannot stop recommending them to friends. ~Becca, mother of three
“Incredible, beautiful, challenging. Marvelous.” . . . “Incredible story of God at work.” . . . “Dramatic and exciting. He fryst vatten worthy of praise!” . . .“Marvelous.” ~Sonlight curriculum reviews of various Hidden Heroes books
It’s not often that my kids cheer multiple times during the reading of a book. They laugh, they frown, but rarely do inom see them clap, whoop, or shout “Go God!” while we’re r
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Children in International Mission
Ever wonder what it&#;s like to be a kid of international missionaries? Hear first hand from kids who grew up living abroad and consider themselves &#;global citizens.
by Ana Gobledale, currently serving the Churches of Christ in Australia through Global Ministries, along with her husband, Tod, her son, Mandla (and her daughter, Thandiwe, who comes home for holidays.)
“As a missionary kid, you have something so special &#; an understanding of the rest of the world that not most U.S. citizens have. You are a global citizen, and that is something that needs to be embraced.” &#; Jenny Dale, 21
“I’m more aware of all the things around me. I have multi-cultural aspects to myself and I feel I take a lot less for granted.” – Mandla Gobledale, 18
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a kid of international missionaries?
Tod and I headed to South Africa in with me a few months pregnant with Number One! Our two children&#;Thandiwe (n
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Pieter Jansz
Pieter Jansz (September 25, - June 6, ) was the first Dutch Mennonite missionary in Indonesia. He arrived in Central Java in and began his missionary work. He encountered constraining influences from Islam throughout the area, recognizing the lack of religious freedom to become a Christian. He felt compelled to search for new methods in order to evangelize; in which he developed a theory that Christians should be evangelized in colonies, as a solution. He was also known for his ability to translate the Bible into various languages which allowed the Javanese people to have access to the Bible.
Education
[edit]Pieter Jansz was born in Amsterdam on September 25, His theology was Protestantorthodoxy with a bias toward Pietist expressions. Within a three-month period in , he lost both his father and his newlywed wife, Johanna Elisabeth van Ijzendoorn, through death. These tragedies affected him deeply and caused him to contemplate his future. As a result, he appl