Modern Viking: The Story of Abraham Vereide, Pioneer in Christian Leadership
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Political leaders in Washington are warm in their praise of Dr. Vereide and his work:
Congressman Charles E. Bennett says, “Abraham Vereide originally envisioned this Group—the House Breakfast Group which meets every Thursday morning for prayer, discussion and Christian fellowship—the most significant thing I know on Capitol Hill. I consider him to be one of America’s greatest citizen-leaders and one of our Master’s greatest tools for good.”
“Reading the life story of Abraham Vereide is like boarding a fast-moving train,” writes the reviewer in Faith at Work magazine, “for here is a man who has been hurtling through life since childhood and now, in his mid-seventies, is still going strong. Though Vereide is Norwegian by birth, it is difficult to think of him except as the American pioneer, and the various stages and episodes in his life epitomize the best of the forces that shaped this nation.
“The story of the development of International Christian Leadership is only slightly less interesting than the story of Vereide himself. And the names that dot the pages!—presidents of the United States, kings and queens, French diplomats, members of Parliament, African and Indian leaders, millionaires, governors, and great Christians of all kinds: Graham, Sunday, Peter Marshall, Schweitzer, Shoemaker, Bob Pierce, Peale. No less interesting are the anonymous men and women whose stories gleam through the swift-paced narrative: the mining camp rowdies, alcoholics, taxi-drivers, churchmen. All in all, this volume is a significant achievement.”
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Norman Percy Grubb MC (1895-1993) was a British Christian missionary and Evangelist, writer, and theological teacher. He was a close of friend of Dr. Vereide. Born on August 2, 1895 in Hampstead, England, the son of an Anglican vicar, he was educated at Marlborough College before joining the British Army as a lieutenant in WWI. He received the Military Cross for meritorious action. After the war, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and later married Pauline Studd, daughter of the famous British cricketer and missionary to Africa C.T. Studd. He left for the Belgian Congo with Pauline in 1920 to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law, working with C.T. Studd in evangelising the Africans. While there he translated the New Testament into Bangala. Before C.T. Studd’s death in 1931, Norman and Pauline returned to England where they ran the mission from its London headquarters. After Studd’s death, Norman became General Secretary of the ministry Studd had founded, World Evangelisation Crusade (W.E.C., WEC International). WEC grew from one mission field with 35 workers to a worldwide mission operating in over 40 fields with thousands of workers from around the world, all living according to the principle that all needs will be supplied by God with no appeals to man. The mission continues to this day under the name of Worldwide Evangelization for Christ. Grubb published a number of books, including a biography of Studd titled C. T. Studd: Cricketer & Pioneer and his autobiography, Once Caught, No Escape. Other titles include Continuous Revival, Touching the Invisible, Rees Howells’ Intercessor, Law of Faith, The Deep Things of God, and many more. Grubb retired the position of International Secretary for WEC in 1965 and began travelling, mostly around England and the U.S., preaching in churches and conferences. He carried on this work until his death in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1993, aged 98.
