What are some missionary biographies you reccommend? Also, are there any online bio's or diaries? Thanks

"In Christ",
Bobby

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Bobby Gawthrop, V.D.M.
licensed, ordained SBC, licensed PCA
Ph.D. student (Whitefield Theological Seminary)
"Every minister in those days had a V.D.M. degree: Verbum Dei Minister. When, therefore, I became a teacher of apologetics it was natural for me to think, not only of my Th.M. and my Ph.D., but above all of my V.D.M. The former degrees were but means whereby I might be true to the latter degree." Cornelius Van Til

Do you want biographies or missions books in general? There are many good missiology books that have come out in the last 5 years, but not many biographies.

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Pergamum


"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

My wife is reading "Bruchko" to the children this year in homeschooling. We always read the books before we read them to the children, and I found it fascinating.

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Kevin
Far East
Deacon, Int'l Church

Bobby -- One classic in this genre is the Life and Journal of David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians, which is available online here. Banner of Truth earlier this year published an edition of The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd which is available for purchase here.

One of the earliest Reformed missionary writings is by the French Huguenot minister Jean de Lery: History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil . He was sent by Coligny and Calvin to assist the first Protestant colony in the New World, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Antarctique. The story is fascinating for its anthropological evaluation of a new culture, as well as its historical account of efforts to present the gospel to the Indians of Brazil. John Gillies, The Martyrs of Guanabara , tells the story of the first Protestant martyrs for the faith in the New World, also at France Antarctique, who penned the first Protestant confession of faith in the New World, and the text, which is hard to find, is included therein.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Thank you all

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Bobby Gawthrop, V.D.M.
licensed, ordained SBC, licensed PCA
Ph.D. student (Whitefield Theological Seminary)
"Every minister in those days had a V.D.M. degree: Verbum Dei Minister. When, therefore, I became a teacher of apologetics it was natural for me to think, not only of my Th.M. and my Ph.D., but above all of my V.D.M. The former degrees were but means whereby I might be true to the latter degree." Cornelius Van Til