Missions

Does God hate Haiti?

Posted by on Jan 14, 2010 in Missions, World | 0 comments

Does God hate Haiti?

Al Mohler president of Southern Seminary addresses the monumental disaster that was just experienced in the country of Haiti.  I thought it might be helpful for you to read this excerpt but I encourage you to read the  full article. Does God hate Haiti? God hates sin, and will punish both individual sinners and nations. But that means that every individual and every nation will be found guilty when measured by the standard of God’s perfect righteousness. God does hate sin, but if God merely hated Haiti, there would be no missionaries there; there would be no aid streaming to the...

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John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides

Posted by on Oct 5, 2009 in Discipleship, Missions | Comments Off

John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides

If you are interested in reading an autobiography I encourage you to consider reading the autobiography of John G. Paton. John G. Paton (1824-1907) was a Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides.  Before sailing there with his newly wed wife in 1858, he was a city missionary in Glasgow for ten years.  Began work on Tanna, an island inhabited by native cannibals; later worked on the island of Aniwa. He gave to the Aniwan people the first hymnbook in their own language and translated the New Testament into their language. The following quote follows an event where he...

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