George Verwer, an writer and evangelist who based the group OM Worldwide and was identified for his give attention to world missions, has died on the age of 84. 

OM Worldwide introduced Verwer’s loss of life on Fb Saturday, explaining that their founder had died on April 14, and requested for prayers for his household.  

“By means of our tears, we give thanks for all George has meant to us and take consolation that he’s with Jesus, whom he liked and served faithfully,” acknowledged OM Worldwide.

“From the early days of main school mission journeys to Mexico, to dreaming of a ship to unfold the Good Information alongside the world’s coasts; by way of his ardour for books, actual relationships and holistic take care of the least reached, George challenged and impressed these he met to share God’s love; actually practising what he preached along with his personal radical life.”

Archbishop Joseph D’Souza of the Anglican Good Shepherd Church of India gave his condolences in a bit revealed by The Christian Publish on Saturday.

“George additionally all the time paid consideration to the place the winds of the spirit have been blowing, and as a maturing church emerged within the International South, he put his efforts into serving to the church turn out to be sustainable,” wrote D’Souza.

“George was one of many first white missions leaders to totally empower nationals to steer the efforts he initiated within the majority world. George was not solely incapable of racism however he by no means handled anybody lower than him.”

D’Souza went on to state that Verwer’s mission work in India “was extra in depth than all the remainder of OM’s appreciable work in the remainder of the world mixed.”

“From the very starting, George’s spirit-led intestine instincts led him to assemble the Indian work another way than what was finished within the West,” D’Souza added.

“From the very inception, the management was handed over to the Indians, and from the start, he gave full freedom to develop the methods and missiology on the native stage.”

A local of New Jersey, Verwer was born in 1938 and have become a born-again Christian in his teenage years after attending a rally led by the Rev. Billy Graham in New York Metropolis.

Verwer started to give attention to worldwide evangelism in 1957 whereas in school, in accordance with OM Worldwide’s official biography, touring that yr to Mexico handy out 20,000 Spanish-language Christian tracts, in addition to 10,000 Gospel booklets.

In 1960, Verwer married Drena Knecht, who he had met whereas enrolled at Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois, with the couple ultimately having three kids.

Whereas residing in Europe, Verwer based Operation Mobilisation, which later grew to become OM Worldwide, which he would lead till 2003, when he stepped right down to give attention to different initiatives.

“Below George’s exuberant management and fuelled by the fervour of believers from many countries to achieve those that had by no means heard the Good Information, OM expanded within the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,” famous OM Worldwide’s official biography.

“His genuine way of life and zeal for the unfold of the Gospel has motivated numerous people and church buildings into extra intentional mission involvement.”

Verwer additionally authored a number of books, together with Confessions of a Poisonous Perfectionist, Messiology, Out of the Consolation Zone and Revolution of Love.

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