December 30. John Smith. Smith had trained to be a baker, but he applied to be a missionary. He was accepted and soon ordained. On this date in 1816, Smith sailed to Guyana, a tropical country bordered by Venezuela on the west, a country that drove its economy on the backs of human slaves. In the next 4 years, Smith baptized 390 slaves, and his tiny congregation grew […]
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