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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Brother Bhaktha Singh Bakht Singh Chabra (Also known as Brother Bakht Singh) (1903–2000) belonged to the Singh Community and was educated in a Christian School. Later he went to study in England and then to Canada. According to his autobiography, Brother Bakht Singh first experienced Christ when he was an engineering student in Canada in 192I . He was excommunicated by his family and he began his ministry in the streets of Bombay. Looking at his success of establishing more than 10,000 assemblies all over . Singh died on September 17, in Hyderabad, India. He was 97. Lutheran Mission The Rev. John Christian Frederick Heyer, M.D(1793 - 1873) and Alexander Duff John Christian Frederick Heyer (USA) was the first Lutheran missionary in the region of Andhra Pradesh. He founded the Guntur Mission in 1842. He studied Sanskrit and medicine in Baltimore, and set sail for India from Boston in 1841 with three other missionary couples on the ship Brenda. He travelled to India a second time in 1847, spending a decade, mainly in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state, in southern India, where he ministered and performed yeoman service to the people there. Supported initially by the Pennsylvania Ministerium, and later by the Foreign Mission Board of the General Synod, Heyer was also encouraged and assisted by British government officials. He established a number of hospitals and a network of schools throughout the Guntur region. "Father Heyer" is commemorated as 202
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 7, along with Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen. During the 19th century, several American Baptist missionaries evangelised in the northeastern parts of India. In 1876, Dr. E. W. Clark first went to live in a Naga village, four years after his Assamese helper, Godhula, baptised the first Naga converts. Rev. and Mrs. A.F. Merrill arrived in India in 1928 and worked in the southeast section of the Garo Hills. Rev. and Mrs. M.J. Chance spent most of the years between 1950–1956 at Golaghat working with the Naga and Garo tribes. Even today the heaviest concentrations of Christians in India continue to be in the Northeast among the Nagas, Khasis, Kukis and Mizos. These missions are described in the next chapter. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon Missionaries, Hugh Findlay was baptized in Dundee, Scotland, on July 1, 1844, by missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He along with Willes left for India to prosetelyte themin 1851 and arrived in Bombay during the British rule in India They were met by opposition from the established Protestant denominations, the press, and military officers and chaplains but did not meet with much success. His work was concentrated among the military. Willes travelled up the Ganges to Simla. It took Findlay six months to baptize his first six converts. Findlay was eventually able to organize a branch of twelve members in Poona by mid-September 1852, a mixture of "European, Eurasian, and native." However, in October Findlay was asked to leave the cantonment. He found new quarters in a small shelter in Poona, where he continued to hold meetings with the branch. Several months later, he completed a chapel directly across the street. The mission did not succede as they throught. The first branches were organized in India in 1980 during a time when the country was administered by the Singapore Mission and the International Mission. The India Bangalore Mission established in 1993 and the India New Delhi Mission in 2007. 203
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