A new vision for missions
Subtitle: William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1917-1945
By: William Lawrence Svelmoe.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780817315931; 9780817380656
Subjects: Townsend, William Cameron, -- 1896-1982; Wycliffe Bible Translators; Summer Institute of Linguistics
Description: "Cam" Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known as faith missions. Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent and to live among them in order to understand their communities. His system stressed training the missionaries in public health, basic education, and agricultural skills. -- from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.