William cameron townsend founded world vision
Townsend wrote a biography on the president of which country?!
11. Cameron Townsend, a missionary with a strategic plan
- Fresh out of college, William Cameron Townsend was confronted with the need for Bible translation into indigenous languages.
- As a missionary in Guatemala, Townsend spent years translating the New Testament into Kaqchikel using an alphabet he himself had devised.
- Townsend later founded Wycliffe Bible Translators, which is today the world's largest Bible translating agency.
Doing missions well: Missionaries in the past whose ministry helped determine today's global outreach efforts
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Make disciples of all nations!
William cameron townsend founded world vision
Doesn't that sound exciting, ambitious and, . . . overwhelming? Indeed, the enormity of what God has called His people to do can either paralyze us into inaction or send us "running in all directions."
There is a better response than either of those extremes.
The global missionary enterprise needs people who have a strategic plan to carry out Christ's Great Co