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Photo - Lieutenant Hudson Fysh of No. 1 Squadron AFC, standing with his Nieuport Scout aircraft P00342.001
His grandfather helped William Booth found the Salvation Army and Hudson Taylor the famous China Inland Mission. His mother Mary spent time working as a missionary in China with Hudson Taylor and with the Rev George Brown in Papua New Guinea.
With such a Christian heritage it would come as no surprise when Frederick and Mary Fysh’s first son was born, he was christened Hudson after the very well-known missionary pioneer to China, Hudson Taylor.
Hudson was born in 1895 at Launceston, Tasmania, the oldest of five siblings: Hudson, Henry, Margaret, Mary and Graham. His childhood was marred by the failure of his parents marriage and his father s business. Originally staying with his father, he ran away so often that eventually he was able to stay with his mother. In spite of this dysfunctional start to life he became Sir Hudson Fysh, founder of the Australian airline QAN
Edited by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo (IVP Academic)
The growth of Christianity around the globe tends to have an enlivening effect on Christian thought and practice, as different people and cultures develop fresh insights on the faith. The essays compiled in Majority World Theology resulted from six annual gatherings convened by the editors, which featured dozens of theologians, Bible scholars, and pastors from across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As the editors remark in their preface, “the churches in these dynamic regions have been cultivating the Christian faith in new soil, [and] the Spirit has blessed their work and allowed it to bear good fruit that the rest of the church should be eager to enjoy.”