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              Seminar & Field Trip at the Northfield

Welcome to the scene of His-Story at western Massachusetts, the American spiritual heritage of deep righteous roots in Christianity and world evangelization, however, which has been forgotten.....
 
A Journey of Prayer around the historical sites of Revival and World Mission:
From Northampton (Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd, Timothy Dwight IV)
To Northfield (D.L. Moody and the Student Volunteer Movement)
 
 

Field Trip and Special Presentation: The Historical Sites

-. Coverage of the sites depends on trip schedule/ seasons/ hours
-. Presentation: Perspectives in World Mission History

    . Origin of the Student Volunteer Movement(SVM)
    . History of American Missions/Missionaries 
    . Impact of the SVM on Korean Evangelization and etc.

Presentation covers including hundreds of the SVM photos and brochures:


 

Sowing: Great Awakening and Early Home Missions (1730-1800)

Sprout: Haystack Prayer Meeting & First Foreign Missions (1806-1812)

Nutrition: Extent of  Students Societies and YMCA  (1820¡¯s -1877)

Big Influence: D. L. Moody & Northfield Conference (1857-1899)

Bloom: Cambridge Seven (1882) & Mt Hermon 100 (1886)

                The Student Volunteer Movement organized (1888)

                The SVM Int¡¯l Convention (1891)

                World Student¡¯s Christian Federation (1895)

                100,000 Volunteers & 20,500 missionaries (1940¡¯s) overseas

An Example of Fruits: Impact on Korean Evangelization (1884-1960)


     
Providential His-Story of Revial and World Mission within 30 miles of radius in wetern Massachusetts  


1) Great Awakening:

-. A birthplace of Jonathan Edwards (1703), a Puritan Church founded by his father 
Rev. Timothy Edwards, and the graveyard (E Windsor, CT)


-. A scene of  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was preached (1741) and the church (Enfield, CT)*                       *Enfield was belong to Massachusetts until 1860

-. First Church of Northampton, A birthplace of Great Awakeing by Jonanthan Edwards

   (1734)

-. Northhampton Cemetary: Solomon Stoddard, David Brainerd & his lover Jerusa Edwards, Monuments of family of Edwards & Timothy Dwight, and early American missionaries

2) Stockbridge:

-. Mission House: Home of John Serjeant, first missionary to Indan tribes supported

   by Jonathan Edwards

-. The Indian Church (First Church):  Jonathan Edwards was 2nd pastor (1751-1757)
-. Jonathan Edwards Monument, graveyard (Sergeant, Indian Christian leaders) 


 

3) Williamstown: Williams College:

One of Campus Revials along with Yale, Darthmouth, Amherst and etc during Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) : Haystack Prayer Movement


-. John Sergeant's brother-in-law Ephraim Williams Jr. was founder of Williams College

    (1793)

-. Monument of Haystack Prayer Movement (1907): "Brethren" of Samuel Mills and his

    friends, James Richards, Francis L. Robbins, Harvey Loomis, and Byram Green,and

    river where they prayed for world missions for East regularly 
  
  
   

   Haystack Prayer Meeting's Monument and its descndants as campus mobilizers

   of world mission agencies during the 200th Anniversary Conference(2007.8.14-16) 
 

-. The Williams "Brethren" went to Andover Seminary co-founded(1809) by Timothy

    Dwight IV, President of Yale, formed Andover "Brethren", among them Rev. & Mrs.

   Adoniram Judson, Samuel & Harriet Newell, Rev. & Mrs. Samuel Nott. Rev. Gordon

   Hall, and Rev. Luther Rice were first American missionaries overseas (1812. 2.19) by

   first mission organization ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign

   Missions which was proposed by Samuel Mills and Adoniram Judson.

 

-.  Harriet Atwood Newell became first American missionary died in a mission field        in her age of 19 in a seashore of India (1812.11.30)

-. Samuel Newell died at his age 35 in Bombay, India  


4) Northfield Schools:

Home of D.L. Moody, where he was born and died and 24 years of his missions in Revival and British Campaigns, and the Student Volunteer Movement bursted and bloomed.

-. The Birthplace (1837. 2. 5) and D.L. Moody Museum 
-. Round Top: Ground zero of Northfield conferences, YMCA & missionary conferences.

   Encampment of College Bible conferences. D.L. Moody was buried at his most favorite spot to preach to the student volunteers.

-. Northfield Auditorium: Symbolic place of SVM and World Mission
-. Homestead(1875): D.L. Moody settled down for 24 years after his British Revival, and where Northfield Bible Conference and Northfield Schools began and died (1899)

-. SVM Monument (50 th Anniversary): Mt Hermon campus 

-. Moody Memorial Chapel(1899): Mt Hermon campus 


5) Amherst & neighboring areas:

-. First American Missionary to China (1829): Elijah Colman Bridgman

   (born at Belchertown, '1826 Amherst College, '1829 Andover Seminary)

-. One of First American missionaries to Korea (1885): Mary F Benton Scranton

   (Belchertown) founded one of most best woman colleges in Korea 

-. ¡°Boys, be ambitious in Jesus Christ¡±: Williams Smith Clark (First President of

    University of Massachusetts went to Japan as missionary to found Hokkaido 

    Agricultural College (now became Hokaido University) 
 
-. First Japanese obtaining a degree oversea and became missionary back to home:
   Joseph H Neeshima, a samurai came to the USA studied at Amherst College (1870) 
   and  Andover Seminary. Founder of Doshisha University in Japan.  



 -. Mt. Holyoke College: First woman college founded with piblic endowment

   (1837). A leading missionary provision college. one of five ABCFM

   woman missionaries was from the school.

   One of the SVM leadhership  Robert Wilder (while his studying at

   Northampton, MA) his sister Grace, who prophesied Mt. Hermon 100,

   studied. (their mother, a wife of Royal Wilder, a prominent Brethren

   of Andover missionary to India, studied at Mt Holyoke too)