A New Vision for Missions
By: William Lawrence Svelmoe
It is tempting to record that the man who would one day be called “the greatest missionary statesman of the twentieth century” fi rst went to the mission field on a whim. While such an assertion would not be entirely accurate, it also would not be far from the truth. When the impossibly slight youth (with thin brown hair, protruding ears, and wearing a wool suit) bounded up the gangplank of the S.S. Peru on September 15, 1917, bound for Guatemala, he was not the typical evangelical Bible institute graduate burning with a long and zealously nurtured passion for the lost heathen. No, William Cameron Townsend came late to his interest in missions. When asked in college at a meeting of the Student Volunteer Movement why he wished to join the student missions organization, Townsend could not articulate a clear reply. [download]
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