Supporting Gospel Work in Glasgow for Christ
The John Paton Foundation
THE FOUNDATION
The John Paton Foundation supports gospel workers, especially those engaged in training for full-time Christian work – either full time or alongside church-based ministry. The Foundation also supports church-based ministries – especially church planting.
JOHN PATON
The Foundation has been named after John Paton, 1824-1907, Missionary to the New Hebrides, whose story has inspired many to support and send gospel workers for training, and to be trained and sent themselves. John Paton was raised in Dumfriesshire, trained in Glasgow, then worked for ten years with enormous success among the ordinary people of Glasgow, teaching Bible classes with Glasgow City Mission. He then headed to the New Hebrides, to what we today call Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, and at great personal cost brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to many.