Joy Horn flags up Christian anniversaries worth noting in the coming year
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Morgan Llwyd, said to be the first non-conformist minister in Wales, was born in 1619. Converted under Walter Cradock, he served as a chaplain in Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army and became minister in Wrexham. His books have influenced Welsh national consciousness and literature to the present day.
Serampore College in West Bengal, India, was opened with 37 students in 1819. Founded the previous year by the pioneer triumvirate of Baptist missionaries, William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward, it was the first college of higher education in India and has been in continuous operation since then. It offered a broad curriculum to those of any ‘caste, colour or country’, and trained ministers for the growing church in India.
