The Missionaries To Serve The Communities

During the nineteenth century a number of Americans were active in the middle-east region, among them the ones with greatest consequences were the missionaries of several protestant denominations were successful in their act of penetrating into many parts of the middle-east area. When they were asked for financial and moral support at home, these missionaries in the middle east held up a mirror through which they were able to see the middle-east. The State department usually provided them with diplomatic support.

A national support for missionaries came through which proved to be an impressive reminder that American isolation did not extend to cultural relations. The enthusiastic conviction of the Americans toward superiority of their civilization drove them to the export features of ideology and also the way of life to those whom they considered less fortunate. By the end of the nineteenth missionaries were operating in five major areas which included Anatolia, Turkey, Syria, Persia, Egypt and also Persian gulf region. During this period the American pioneers also found that a few European Christian missionaries had preceded them in the parts of the middle-east.

But in the beginning of the twentieth century those five centers of American missionaries suffered from a brief statistical breakdown which gave some impressions of the extent and the distribution of their endeavors. Later on the missionaries introduced western style education and medicine to many parts of the middle-east which undoubtedly left a tremendous effect on leavening.

The missionaries wanted their students to serve their communities which so desperately needed their knowledge and skill, but many of them saw the vision of outside world which beckoned to greater opportunities elsewhere especially the western hemisphere. Also the missionary literature of the early twentieth century proved to be full of laments including the alarming emigration of the American and the Syrian youth. The missionary medicine showed what modern science could do towards relieving pain and curing of the ailments, which made it possible to attack the notion that sickness was a visitation from Allah which should be accepted without the possibility of any recourse. The women played an active role on the missionary life due to which it stood in sharp contrast with the position of their sisters in the middle-east.

The mere presence of these women, often wives and mothers, who not only entered into professional and social life but into the community endeavor too. The missionaries were one of the several factors which resulted in the evolution of the status of middle-eastern women. From the inception of their efforts, the missionaries understood the need of training in local languages and customs of the middle-east. Such training were nothing but a pre-requisite for the reaching the people with some effective message.

The missionaries with their enterprises in Asia Minor and some other regions were still the dominating American concerns. These were the years of great optimism for the missionaries who hopefully scattered evidence to mean that they were the reasons of breaking the barriers of Islamic society.

Present truth ministries is one of the missionaries in the middle east dedicated to spreading the biblical truth, bible teaching and end time message in the world.