The Indefatigable Work of Don Carlos Janes
At the turn of the 20th century, Churches of Christ had less than a nominal level of missionary activity. With few missionaries abroad and fewer churches willing to support them along with no denominationally baptized mechanism for conducting a missionary enterprise, the prospect of a viable missions program that covered the denomination seemed bleak for Churches of Christ. Don Carlos Janes (1877-1944) would find himself in this difficult situation in 1911 as he began his work as a missionary promoter. Jeremy Hegi recently published an article titled “One-Man Missionary Society: The Indefatigable Work of Don Carlos Janes” in Restoration Quarterly Vol. 58 No. 4. The essay demonstrates how Janes established and maintained a missionary consciousness among the congregations of Churches of Christ, in addition to recruiting and supporting a majority of missionaries of the denomination between 1911 and 1944.