Fredrik Franson

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Fredrik Franson

Fredrik Franson (born June 17, 1852 in Nora , Sweden , † August 2, 1908 in Idaho Springs , Colorado ) was a Swedish evangelist , founder of parishes, congregation associations and several missionary societies, u. a. the alliance mission .

Life

Franson was the son of a poor miner. At the age of seventeen he emigrated to America with his parents in 1870. In 1875 he met the well-known evangelist Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) in Chicago and became his close associate at his evangelistic events. But soon he made himself independent from Moody, he began to evangelize and build up evangelical churches. He founded the loose congregational associations of the Covenant Church and the Evangelical Free Church in the USA, which today belong to the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches .

From 1881 Franson began traveling around the world, first to Scandinavia, then to Germany and other European countries and later beyond. Many people found through him a personal faith in Jesus Christ . In 1883 he published the Scandinavian hymn book Evangelii Basun with 360 evocative gospel hymns , which reached several editions. He was jailed once in Denmark for 38 days for conducting healing sessions. He was well connected around the world and knew many representatives from the World Evangelical Alliance , the Sanctification Movement , the Community Movement , the Sunday School Association , and various faith missions . He sent several missionaries out as friends and partners for the Inland China Mission .

Foundations

Fourteen mission societies or free church associations in Europe and the USA go back to Frederik Franson. In Germany, it was Carl Polnick (1856–1919) with whom he launched the Allianz Mission in 1889, which is now the foreign mission of the Association of Free Evangelical Churches . Also to be mentioned are:

  • Armenian Evangelical Brotherhood
  • Association of Free Evangelical Churches in America
  • Danish Missionary Union
  • Alliance Evangelical Mission in America
  • Finnish Free Church
  • Finnish Free Missionary Union
  • Norwegian Alliance Mission
  • Norwegian Mission Association
  • Swedish Alliance Mission
  • Swedish Evangelical Mission
  • Swedish Sanctification Mission
  • Swiss Alliance Mission
  • Vandsburg branch of the German Community Diakonieverband

Franson was one of the first mission founders to have women involved as equals in evangelism and preaching. He also held follow-up meetings and faith courses for those interested after the evangelism events. He understood evangelism as well as diakonia as his mission.

literature

  • Bertha Polnick: Carl Polnick. A picture of life. Barmen 1920.
  • Werner Schnepper: Fredrik Franson. In: Kurt Zimmermann: Fifty Years of Allianz China Mission. Witten 1939, 31-38.
  • China calls. 60 years of Allianz China mission. Barmen 1949.
  • David B. Woodward: Aflame for God: Biography of Fredrik Franson, founder of The Evangelical Alliance Mission. Moody Press
  • Edvard Torjesen : Frederick Franson after 100 years. Evangelical Alliance Mission. Wheaton / Ill. 1981
  • Eberhard Schnepper: A man sent by God: Frederick Franson. In: Der Gärtner 90/1983, p. 767f.
  • Edvard Torjesen: Fredrik Franson: A Model for Worldwide Evangelism. William Carey Library 1983, ISBN 978-0-8780-8191-2
  • Edvard Torjesen: A Study of Frederick Franson. The Development and Impact of his Ecclesiology, Missiology and World Wide Evangelism. Ann Arbor, Michigan / USA 1984
  • August Jung: From the struggle of the fathers. Enthusiastic movements in the late 19th century. Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1995.
  • Hartmut Weyel: Fredrik Franson (1852-1908). Evangelist, end-time preacher, and co-founder of the Alliance Mission . In: Ders .: The future needs a past. Lively portraits from the history and prehistory of the Free Evangelical Churches. Volume 5.5 / 1. Pp. 123-135, Witten 2009.
  • Hans Ulrich Reifler: Frederik Franson (1852–1908): friend, sponsor and partner of the China Inland Mission. Evangelical Missiology No. 1/2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Imhof: The father of the networked mission. Idea June 17th, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Franson, Fredrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franson, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-American evangelist and founder of ward and missionary societies
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Nora , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1908
Place of death Idaho Springs , Colorado