David M. Howard (author and Christian missionary)
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David M. Howard Sr. is an author and Christian missionary to Colombia
. He is the brother of Elisabeth Elliot
, brother-in-law of Jim Elliot
, and brother of author Thomas Howard (writer and scholar)
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Howard served as missionary to Costa Rica under the Latin America Mission (LAM) (1953–1957). He served as Field Director for the LAM's work in Colombia (1958–67). He served as the Missions Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (1968–76), directing the Urbana 73 and Urbana 76 Student Missions Conventions on the campus of the University of Illinois. He served as the director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (1977–80), and was the executive director of the World Evangelical Fellowship (1982–92).
Howard served as trustee of Wheaton College
, trustee and president of Latin America Mission (1965–1980, 1984–1987, 1993–1999), trustee of The American Leprosy Mission, trustee of the David C. Cook Foundation, and board member of the Tyndale Foundation.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. He is the brother of Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot is a Christian author and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband...
, brother-in-law of Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot
Philip James Elliot was an evangelical Christian who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Waodani people of Ecuador.-Early life:...
, and brother of author Thomas Howard (writer and scholar)
Thomas Howard (writer and scholar)
Thomas Howard is a highly acclaimed writer and scholar. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he is known for his studies of C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, as well as for books such as his Christ the Tiger and Evangelical is Not Enough ....
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Howard served as missionary to Costa Rica under the Latin America Mission (LAM) (1953–1957). He served as Field Director for the LAM's work in Colombia (1958–67). He served as the Missions Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (1968–76), directing the Urbana 73 and Urbana 76 Student Missions Conventions on the campus of the University of Illinois. He served as the director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (1977–80), and was the executive director of the World Evangelical Fellowship (1982–92).
Howard served as trustee of Wheaton College
Wheaton College (Illinois)
Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...
, trustee and president of Latin America Mission (1965–1980, 1984–1987, 1993–1999), trustee of The American Leprosy Mission, trustee of the David C. Cook Foundation, and board member of the Tyndale Foundation.