This presentation by Dr. David Trim aired on May 19, 2021, and explains how the Seventh-day Adventist Church went from rejecting the need for foreign mission to becoming a world-wide, mission-focused movement. It highlights the role of key individuals, whose God-given talents and dedication helped to shape the church’s “missionary enterprise” (as they called it). But it also shows the importance of church organization, without which individual contributions could never have had the impact they did.
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