Father of faith missions : the life and times of Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853) - Dann, Robert Bernard (Waynesboro, Ga. : Authentic Media, 2004)
Norris Groves was an English dentist who found promises and instructions in the New Testament that no one seemed to have noticed before. He wondered if churches and missions might achieve more if they simply did what Jesus had told them to do ...... It was a theory he would put to the test. In 1829 he and his wife Mary sold their possessions, gave what they had to the poor and set off for the East, trusting simply in the care of their heavenly Father ...... They settled with their two small boys in a house with a courtyard in the ancient Muslim capital of Baghdad. Here they explained the gospel of Christ to anyone who would listen... until plague struck the city, followed by cholera, famine, floods and civil war! ...... This is the story of a grand experiment in authentic Christianity, and one that went on to inspire a generation of faith missions .
Keywords: Groves, Anthony Norris, -- 1795-1853. Missionaries -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography. Plymouth Brethren -- Missions