Great Churches William Carey

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what trends did they set and how they expressed their influence?  Can those past churches’ successes help us today?  

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William Carey Baptist Church, Calcutta, India

I took a two-day tour of Calcutta, India, in October 1978, while getting ready to take a gospel team from Liberty University to visit the region.  On Wednesday night I slipped into the prayer meeting at Carey Baptist Church, there were around 100 in the room.  I attended this prayer meeting with Roscoe Brewer, head of missions for Thomas Road Baptist Church. 

The sermon was good, it contained gospel truth, but there was no passion, no fire, nor urgency.  Many people in the congregation prayed, not passionately with tears like I had heard in other churches. 

The church was open for gospel services on January 1, 1809.  There were approximately 660 people when William Carey and Marshman served as the pastors of the church. There were no records kept of baptisms or attendance in the early days. 

      William Carey was born in 1761, a British missionary representing the Particular Baptists.  He had preached his sermon on missions with a slogan that ultimately became famous, “Expect great things from God, attempt great things from God.”  He was the founder of the Baptist Missionary Society in October 1792.  Carey founded the first college in India and translated the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit and numerous other languages and dialects. Because of that he was called the “father of modern missions.”  

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