1.  Ended the persecution of the church?

            Edict of Toleration (Treaty of Milan)

2.Translated the Scriptures into the Gothic tongue.

              Ulfilas

3. Missionary to Ireland 

4.  Apostle to Germany; power encounter at the Oak of Thor

          Boniface

5.  Made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

      Theodosius

 6. “First missionary to the Muslims,” he trained many followers in the Arabic language to minister to Muslims

   Islam

7. Tens of thousands of Chinese converts through his ministry in the 13^th century

8. First known missionary to reach China  (7^th century)

9.  Early church historian who gives account of earliest missionary activity

             Eusebius

10. "Apostle to the Slavs"

11. His conversion led to the conversion of Russia and the Ukraine?

         Vladimir

12.First preacher on record to preach to non-Proselyte Romans

                Raymond Lull

13. Credited for taking the Gospel to North Africa (Alexandria)

   John Mark

14. Credited for taking the Gospel to India 

            Thomas

15. Her martyrdom in the third century results in many converts to Christianity

              Perpetua

16. Often considered the most negative event in the history of Christianity, its history includes the Crusades which defamed Christianity  

17. Evangelized much of Ireland, England, Scotland and continental Europe during the Middle Ages.

         Celtic monks

18. Evangelist who left Jerusalem to preach to the Samaritans

   Philip

19.  Threatened Norwegian peasants to be baptized or to be killed.

  Olav 

20.Halted the spread of Islam in Europe

Charles "The Hammer" Martel

Countries which colonized accompanied with Roman Catholicism 

   Portugal &   Spain

Many consider

his work in Japan in the 16th century as the greatest example of Roman Catholic missionaries

Francis Xavier

.  Leader in the concept of contextualization in China

  Matteo Ricci

His proposal of evangelizing the heathens was scorned by his pastor.

 William Carey

Moravian church leader

 Zinzendorf

One of the earliest proponents of the indigenous church model, which he called the apostolic example or Pauline Method

     Rufus Anderson

Founded the China Inland Mission

  Hudson Taylor

Profoundly influenced the course of Southern Baptist missions

Charles Parham

At the turn of the 20th century these  Movements produced missionaries

   Bible Institutes &     Faith Missions

Dominican priest called the ‘Apostle of the Indies”

 Bartolome de Las Casas

Believing the world had been evangelized centuries before, they focused their energies on reforming Christian life within the Western church. 

    Reformers

Movement founded by Ignatius Loyola

 Jesuits

One of American’s first missionaries, he buried his wife and child in Burma

    Adoniram Judson

John Mott described this as “the most significant gathering ever held in the interest of the world’s evangelization.”

A liberated slave who oversaw the production of the Yoruba Bible

  Samuel Crowther

“The first cross-cultural Chinese missionary in modern times” and “The first to establish a Bible institute for women workers in China.”

    Dora Yu

"The father of Christianity in the Ivory Coast"

Twentieth century missionary who spent a lifetime promoting evangelization of Muslims

     Samuel Zwemer

He proclaimed, “Christ must be in the Indian setting.  He must be the Christ of the Indian Road.”

 Stanley Jones

Director of the Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, where students spoke in tongues in 1901

    Charles Parham

Swedish-American Missionary who pioneered a Pentecostal movement in Brazil (Assemblies of God) which today encompasses millions of believers

  Daniel Berg

Leader of the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles

  William Seymour

Albanian missionary called to minister to the “poorest of the poor” in Calcutta, India

  Mother Teresa