There have been many great missionaries in the world. We learned about some of them during a missions class this past fall called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement (which I highly recommend). As part of this class, we learned about four men and three world-changing eras in the last 200 years.
One of the two men who set in motion the third era was Cameron Townsend, co-founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators. “Townsend saw that there were still unreached frontiers, and for almost a half century he waved the flag for the overlooked tribal people of the world.” If you were to ask Cameron Townsend who is the greatest missionary, I am confident of his answer.
”The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”
— Cameron Townsend
