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Norman Grubb, the successor to C.T. Studd in Congo, wrote that the mission made no appeals for funds, took no offerings at meetings, guaranteed missionaries no fixed salaries, and incurred no debt from the beginning. Funds that were received were divided equally among the missionaries. Neither C.T.
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The Heart of Africa
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also of WEC, began touring Brazil giving seminars promoting the idea. The idea has since matured in Brazil and spread to many other countries. Many indigenous mission agencies were formed as a result, and
Brierley formed a "global strategy for launching mission movements in non-Western countries."
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Brierley visited Brazil in 1962 to survey that land for its missionary-sending potential. Later, in 1972–73, he and Bob Harvey,
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to the campus in 1884. Studd spent several years in China and a time in India before going on in his fifties to establish and lead the "Heart of Africa" Mission (HAM). Although broken in health, Studd said, "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make
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on the children of that country. She later started Crisis Care
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as a sister mission in 1941. After retirement in 1965, Grubb lived at the WEC US headquarters in Ft. Washington, PA, writing extensively and traveling from there until his death in 1993.
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