Come Celebrate! 2018 Schedule 23 Nov preparation in Australia Come Celebrate! 24 Nov travel to South Asia 25-27 Nov orientation and preparation in South Asia 200 years of In December 2018 28-30 Nov visit mother tongue Bible translators in College their homes. Serampore College 1-2 Dec regroup and prepare for travel and the work of 3 Dec travel to Serampore (with mother-tongue William Carey (outside Kolkota) translators) will celebrate 4-7 Dec celebrate God’s goodness 8-9 Dec return to Australia the Bicentennial

of the establishment Come Celebrate! Costs: $2,500 approximately of Serampore College Come Celebrate! Contact Details: and the work of To register your interest in joining Come Celebrate! Carey, Marshman and Ward email: [email protected] for further details. in translating the Scriptures into 38 languages of India.

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As William Carey prayed for the peoples of the world God confronted him. “If it is the duty of all men to believe the Gospel then it is the duty of those who know the Gospel to make it known among all nations.” Carey wept and responded, “Here am I; send me!”

Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God. — WILLIAM CAREY 24 November – 9 December 2018 Kolkota, India Question: Are missionaries law abiding? In • By 1870 initiated schools in which more than 1792 the Directors of the 200,000 boys and girls were enrolled. • Established a total of 45 mission stations (from believed missionary work in India would upset Java to Mauritius), sent out 30 missionaries and their money-making trade. Many members of • Achieved the abolition of sati (wife burning) trained 40 native teachers. Parliament and British clergy also opposed and female infanticide. all missionary efforts in India. The East India • Established Serampore College ‘For the Company refused permission for William Carey • Ended the caste system among converts to instruction of Asiatic, Christian, and other youth and family to sail. By an Act of Parliament, it was Christianity. in Eastern literature and European science.’ a criminal offence for Carey to travel to India • Wrote and published papers on agriculture without permission. In the same circumstances, • The Serampore College curriculum offered and forestry. what would you do? , Persian, Bengali, the Biblical languages, a range of Indian languages, Muslim and Hindu • Established a botanical garden at Serampore. legal principles, Greek, Latin, classics, the ‘law of Who was • Edited and published a description of more nations,’ ethics, the natural sciences, history, and also European languages. William Carey? than 2000 plants, native to Eastern Asia. • Serampore College was the first university in William Carey has been • Initiated the Agricultural and Horticultural India, with a charter from the King of Denmark, called “the greatest and Society of India. Frederick VI, to confer degrees - the first such most versatile Christian university in Asia. missionary sent out in • Set up the first banking system in India. modern times.” • Established the first lending libraries in India The son of poor parents, using books imported from England. and apprenticed to a • Composed a grammar and of the cobbler, William Carey learned, and was able to . read the Bible in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, French, as well as English, all before he turned 31. • Translated the whole Bible into Bengali.

Upon arrival in India, Carey and his colleagues: • Along with his colleagues translated the • Believed that education was vital for the spread Scripture into 38 languages. of the Gospel in India. • Set up the first steam-powered printing press • Opened schools for village children, for the in India - the Serampore Mission press. destitute, for girls, for boys, for Hindus, for Muslims, and for the children of foreigners. • Between 1800 and 1834, printed Bible translations in almost 50 languages - from to . The story of missions the whole wide world over shows Men talk of making history, but of all history makers, that the success or failure of church growth has always none equal those who give men in their mother tongue • Established mission stations (with Government been dependent on whether those brought to Christ the Word of God. — LONDON REVIEW ON SERAMPORE, 1859 approval) throughout Bengal and India. had the Scriptures in their own language or not. — G. CAMPBELL MORGAN