Fuller faithfully carries on mission work

By Staff
Jonathan Willis
Grady Fuller's travels have taken him into some of the most remote and hostile areas of the world.
Often traveling alone into rural villages and desolate lands, Fuller sees it as a calling to "go therefore and make disciples," quoting scripture from Matthew 28:19.
"The Bible says a great and effective door has opened to me and there are many adversaries," Fuller said.
For the retired history professor, traveling the world to deliver Bibles and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a choice, it's a calling. Fuller recently returned to Franklin County from a two-week mission trip to India.
Fuller said he was questioned by a young Indian boy at one point during his trip.
"He said, 'what is the greatest problem you see with the world today, especially with young people," Fuller said. "I told him that it is emptiness. They are like King Solomon and they test themselves with pleasures hoping to achieve happiness, but it's to no avail."
While in India, Fuller was encouraged to see a group of Christians vow to re-build a church that had been demolished by Hindus.
"They met at the site and declared that they would not be intimidated and that they would re-build," Fuller said.
Fuller, in his mid 80s, continues to travel to areas of the world that are in need of Christian leadership and guidance. He receives help in funding the purchase of Bibles to distribute on these trips, but he is responsible for travel costs.
But as he sees it, these are the people who need to hear the message of Christ.
When he returned home from India, he had a letter waiting on him, asking that he travel to central Africa to share the gospel there.
"With trips to India and the Philippines coming so close together this year, I am too short on money to go now," Fuller said. "Hopefully and prayerfully Christians will hear the cries of what is possibly the most desperate people in the world and will help me get to them."