Father Paez

He was a Spanish Jesuit who served in Ethiopia in the early 1600s. He was sent out as a missionary to Ethiopia, and on the journey there he was captured by pirates and forced to work as a galley slave for a number of years. I learned from him that sometimes God has other plans than my comfortable view of what missions ought to look like. On a different note, he didn't raise up any leaders to follow him. I also learned the importance of raising up leaders, and pouring into other people along my journey.