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The Missionaries

Who carried the work — and what kind of work it was. Each profile gives the social impact, a personal timeline, the institutions left behind, and page-cited sources, written in our own words.

Amy Carmichael 1867–1951 Rescued children from temple servitude and raised them in the Dohnavur Fellowship. Child rescueWomen’s upliftmentIndigenous church E. Stanley Jones 1884–1973 Sought to present Christ as Indian, not Western — through Round Table Conferences and Christian ashrams. Indigenous churchSocial reform Ida Scudder 1870–1960 Built Vellore's great medical centre and a school to train Indian women as doctors. MedicalEducationWomen’s upliftment Mary Reed 1854–1943 Stricken with leprosy herself, she gave her life to the lepers of the Himalayas at Chandag. Leprosy care Paul Brand 1914–2003 Pioneered reconstructive surgery for leprosy and proved its damage comes from the loss of pain. Leprosy careMedical V. S. Azariah 1874–1945 India's first Anglican bishop, who led village mass movements and put mission in Indian hands. Indigenous churchMass movement William Carey 1761–1834 A self-taught cobbler who became Bengal's great Bible translator and pressed colonial India toward social reform. Bible translationEducationSocial reformIndigenous church