Items of Interest March 5, 2012 Issue

Anniversary celebrations to highlight pioneer missionary spirit

G. Jeffrey MacDonald

When America’s first ordained missionaries sailed from here to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America’s most potent export: Christianity.

That’s the message that will reverberate across nine Judson 200 commemorative events, running February 5–20 in and around Salem [Massachusetts]. Speakers—evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and scholars—will recall how the course of history changed with Adoniram Judson and four other missionaries. . . .

“The essential idea (in foreign missions) is that a person born in Pakistan is every bit as human and to be valued as much as a person born in North America or England,” said Rodney Petersen, executive director of the Boston Theological Institute, a consortium of nine area theological schools.

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