† Bernard Thorogood

Bernard Thorogood has passed away, at the grand old age of 92. He was one of the last missionaries of the Great Century (which was, in fact, more than a century). He was a missionary of the London Missionary Society, and became the first General Secretary of the Council for World Mission. I knew Rev. Thorogood as a boy. OBSERVATION: The Great Century came to a close with the Moratorium on Missions, one of the biggest Church events of the 20th Century. I witnessed that from the inside, and saw its after-effects, too. It granted autonomy to mission Churches, yet at the same time largely abandoned them.