As the historically acclaimed Father of Modern Missions, William Carey was an evangelist, linguist, pastor, botanist, educator, and at times a diplomat. I aspire to that kind of broad-minded philosophy and would be happy to be known as one of his descendants.
We have lived in South Africa since 2004 about an hour from Zimbabwe planting churches among Tsongas, Vendas, and the occasional Shona.
As to my personality, I am a reluctant child of my times fighting against the near omnipresent hastiness contemporary society and personal proclivity have bestowed on me. But I’m helped in my journey by an outstanding companion who homeschools our five children as well as serves the church.
Theologically, I am a confessional Baptist who likes evangelism, churchplanting, premillennialism, Abraham Kuyper, and of course, William Carey.
Other peculiarities include an interest in classic and enduring culture (hence the reference to Tolkien), hermeneutics, linguistics, and logic. You can reach me via the comments or at sethmeyers@mailbox.org.
Thanks for visiting.
Seth, adding you to my Inoreader RSS feed.
Thank you for your article on simultaneous prayer. This was very helpful as I’m talking to a young pastor now to show him that mass praying is not biblical.
Where in South Africa do you live?
My wife and I used to live in Cape Town for five years. We now live in Lusaka, Zambia. We’ve been here for almost seven years. We’ve been in Africa for 14 years.
We were in Francistown, Botswana for two years. We went into Zimbabwe many times to do ministry in Plumb Tree. We then went to Cape Town from Botswana.
I came across your site, for which thanks. Are you actually descended directly from William? Brought up in a BMS family in India he is my great missions hero. Would love to know more about your family connections. The Lord bless you