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The Christian community he had planted grew and prospered. Raise up, we beseech thee, in this and every land, evangelists and heralds of thy kingdom, that thy Church may proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Ludwig believed that the Christian devotion should be an indigenous experience for the Batak people. Use me as an instrument for spreading the Gospel far and wide. In 1909, his second wife died and he lost a son during World War I.
The University of Bonn awarded him an honorary doctorate of theology. His work expanded and he helped to advance schools, hospitals and a theological seminary.
His wife died in 1887, leaving him with four children.
(Note that Islam is widespread in Indonesia and has outposts as far east as the Philippines.) After some initial troubles, the mission began to succeed, with the conversion of several tribal chiefs and their followers. His first mission station was in the Silindung Valley. He is commemorated as a missionary on November 7 in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church with John Christian Frederick Heyer and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg.
Nommensen was born in the Nordstrand peninsula in 1834, when the area was within Denmark.
He undertook to preach the Gospel without replacing the native culture by a European one, and to develop native Church leaders and a native order of worship. Amen!”
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(From the Lutheran Calendar)
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was born in 1834 in Schleswig-Holstein (a district long disputed between Denmark and Germany, and at that time Danish).
Another child would die four years later.
In 1878, he completed the first translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
He served as an interpreter and cultural consultant when war broke out between a Batak priest king and the Dutch occupants. By 1876 there were 2000 Batak Christians. The Batak Christian University at Medan and Pematang Siantar was named Nommensen University in 1954.
Bishop Stephen Neill, in his History of Christian Missions, describes Nommensen as “one of the most powerful missionaries of whom we have record anywhere” (page 348)!
Nommensen himself laid out his involvement in the war in a report that was published in BRMG 12, 1878:361–81, where he explain that his involvement was aimed to save lives and to avoid Dutch brutal punitive action against local villages. In 1878 he completed the first translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
In the same year he, his fellow missionaries, and the Christian Batak were threatened by the Batak priest king Singamangaraja XII who had gained support from Aceh that was involved in a war against the Dutch occupants.
PRAYER (traditional language)
Almighty and everlasting God, we thank thee for thy servant Ludwig Nommensen, whom thou didst call to preach the Gospel to the Batak peoples of Sumatra. He focused on the Batak people, a cannibal nation. His grit and determination to work for God kept him going in the face of the death of his wife and three other children to illness.