The nineteenth century has been called “the century of foreign missions,” since there was such an impressive surge of men and women going into all the world with the message of the gospel. Missions has been at the heart of Christianity since Jesus gave the church His departing assignment in “The Great Commission” in Matthew 28:18-20. While the movement into distant fields has not always been as prominent as it should have been, it did begin afresh with the Moravian missions of the mid-18th century, at the same time as the Great Awakening produced evangelists like John Wesley and George Whitefield. A missions-consciousness grew in English-speaking Christendom from the time of William Carey, “the father of modern missions,” when he went to India in 1793. His 41 year ministry there was phenomenal, especially as he used his ability as an extraordinarily gifted linguist who translated the Bible into multiple dialects.