William H. Pettit

William H. Pettit

William Haddow Pettit (1885-1985) was a Christian missionary to Bangladesh with the "New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society" from 1910-1915, and a leader of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. He founded the "Crusader Union of New Zealand" in 1930 after hosting IVF preacher Howard Guinness, and played a leading role in the formation of the "Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (NZ)" (now known as Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship) in 1936.

References

*Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=3P24 William Haddow Pettit]


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