God loves to use people the world might overlook William Carey was raised in a tiny village in the s and had little formal education He had limited success in his chosen trade and lived in poverty But God gave him a passion for sharing the good news and called him to be a missionary Carey learned Greek Hebrew and Latin and eventually translated the first New Testament into the Bengali language Today he is regarded as a ldquo father of modern missions rdquo but in a letter to his nephew he offered this humble assessment of his abilities ldquo [... more]