Faith Missionaries
Early advocates of faith missions included many Plymouth Brethren missionaries such as:
- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission, who advocated "Moving men, by God, through prayer alone" and not soliciting funds at all.
- Anthony Norris Groves, referred to as the 'father of faith missions'.
- George Müller, who ran orphanages in the Bristol area of England.
Other early leaders included:
- Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Methodist Episcopal Church missionary bishop, William Taylor
Modern examples include:
- Jim Elliot, martyred missionary to the Huaorani people of Ecuador
- The missionaries of The Faith Mission and of the Two by Twos sect
- Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision
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