Adoniram Judson

(1788-1850) : American Baptist missionary

to Burma, called

Father of Baptist Missionaries.

In 1834 completed a translation of the

whole Bible into Burmese.

As a young man, he had cried out, “I will not

leave Burma, until the

cross is planted here forever.!

He died in 1850 and

was buried at

Bay of Bengal, Burma coast. 33 years after his death, Burma had 63 Christian Churches, 163 missionaries, and over 7000 baptized converts.”