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In The Greatest Missionary Generation: Inspiring Stories from around the World, Larry Sharp establishes the characteristics, challenges, successes, and uniqueness of an incredible generation of missionaries. It is of no small significance that the missionaries of the second half of the twentieth century prepared the way for Gods people of the twenty-first century. Post-World War II purveyors of the gospel had incredible opportunities and open doors, and they used them for the glory of God.
Through the retelling of personal stories of the missionaries in New Guinea, Brazil, Mexico, and more, lesser known details of missionary activity in the 1950s and 1960s are revealed, including the courage, personal calling, sacrifice, and excellence of these brave Christians. Their incredible journeys prove that their legacy is worth celebrating and remembering. It is of utmost importance for future generations to understand and appreciate the previous generations struggles and triumphs. The Greatest Missionary Generation will mobilize hearts to love and serve the Lord.
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An in-depth look into the lives and work of missionaries who served in the decades after World War II
Includes photos
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The Greatest Missionary Generation: Inspiring Stories from around the World (ebook edition)
2020 Larry W. Sharp
Published by Hendrickson Publishers
an imprint of Hendrickson Publishing Group
Hendrickson Publishers, LLC
P. O. Box 3473
Peabody, Massachusetts 01961-3473
www.hendricksonpublishinggroup.com
ebook ISBN 978-1-68307-331-4
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Scripture quotations contained herein are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
All Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from the King James Version. Public domain.
Disclaimer: This book contains sensitive subject matter, including the brutal death of children and missionary martyrdom. The events were included as an integral part of the missionary story. Please be aware of this before reading this book.
Note: Much of the information in this book was taken from personal interviews and correspondence between the author and the involved parties.
Due to technical issues, this eBook may not contain all of the images or diagrams in the original print edition of the work. In addition, adapting the print edition to the eBook format may require some other layout and feature changes to be made.
First eBook edition September 2020
Crossworld is committed to unleashing the explosive power of spiritual multiplication and the untapped potential of every believer. Its vision is to send disciple-makers from all professions who bring Gods love to life into the worlds least-reached marketplaces.
To God, my heavenly Father, who protected the man who would one day become my father from a watery war grave in the English Channel that cold October night in 1942. That man later came to believe in you as his Savior and with my mother led me to follow you as well.
To my beloved wife, Vicki Linn, of fifty years. She has lived through marriage, parenthood, and service to the fullest with me, walking alongside me in the journey of bringing this book to reality, insisting on its quality and accuracy.
To my children, Tammy, Torrey (Teri), Trevor (Lindsey), and Trudy. It has been a privilege and honor to be your father. Whatever successes follow me into eternity will be largely to your credit. I am proud of each of you.
To the people at Crossworld, who provided context, guidance, and friendship through forty-seven years of ministry in Brazil, Canada, and the United States, along with Business as Mission ministry in more than forty countries.
To the many members of the greatest missionary generation we have knownonly some of whom are represented here. You have been our models in life and faith. You have served your generation well. I believe you are truly the greatest!
Many of the stories recounted in this book have existed in relative obscurity until now, hidden away in the hearts of the great men and women who experienced them. Though I have worked with Crossworld for thirty years, ten of those as its president, some of the content of this book was completely unknown to me. Undoubtedly, these stories were shared with the faithful saints who sent out these heroes over half a century ago, but without todays technology to spread them around the globe, they were eventually forgotten.
Larry and Vicki Sharp have done a huge service for the kingdom of God in capturing these stories for the generations to come. Not only does this book honor this greatest missionary generation, but I pray that God will use it to awaken and send a new generation of courageous men and women, who will consider no sacrifice too great for the glory of his name.
Do not read this book as a mere history of great missionary activity. Read it as a stimulus for another great movement of God among the nations before he returns. Beg God to stir up and send out a new breed of pioneers to continue the task of proclaiming his name to the 2.9 billion who have still never heard of him. The jungles they live in, however, no longer resemble the ones described in this book. For the most part, they are the urban jungles of business enterprise and higher education, as well as those of poverty, injustice, illiteracy, illegitimacy, crime, and hopelessness.
Its likely that this next generation of champions will not come by way of the same paths as the missionary greats described in these pages. They may or may not have Bible degrees or a missionary salary. They certainly wont arrive by boat. And they might not stay for forty years. But what they will have in common with those who have gone before them is an unquenchable thirst to see God exalted among those who have not had a viable opportunity to know him. They will leave behind comforts of a magnitude their forebearers could not have imagined. But like those who have gone before, they will be willing to lay down their lives for a cause that will endure throughout all eternity.
Maybe you, the reader of this book, will be one of those someday called the final great generation. Or maybe you will need to release one of your children or grandchildren to the mission field. Maybe letting go of the ones you cherish the most will be your own act of greatness. Whatever the case may be, dont read this book passively. Read it with a heart ready to be mobilized for the final great push into the glorious eternity that awaits those who love him.
Dale Losch
President, Crossworld
No phase of the occupation has left me with a greater sense of personal satisfaction than my spiritual stewardship.... Please send missionaries... andBibles.
General Douglas MacArthur
after the defeat of Japan in 1945
The Second World War was perhaps the biggest national challege of the twentieth century for the United States and its Western allies. Filmmaker Ken Burns called the generation who fought the war abroad and at home a generation of remarkable Americansour better angels, and journalist Tom Brokaw called them the Greatest Generation, which was also the title of his 1998 New York Times best-selling book.
My father was one member of that greatest generation and was an example of, in the words of Brokaw, men and women whose lives had been defined first by the deprivations of the Great Depression and then by the sacrifices of the war who came home to start families, begin careers, build communities, serve their nation... and they gave us the lives we have today. Although they were just ordinary people, they went on to become known as the greatest generation.
When I was a child, a plaque on the wall of our home read, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, spoken by Winston Churchill during the Battle of Britain in 1940. My father was a flyer over the skies of England. He eventually returned home on a stretcher in 1943, after being bailed out of the English Channel. His plane sank in ninety seconds. He was my hero.
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