Facing a Task Unfinished (We Go to All the World)

Frank Houghton, an Anglican bishop and missionary to China, wrote this hymn in 1931. Originally it was part of a campaign to bring two hundred more missionaries to China during a horrific period in Chinese history. In light of the extraordinary work of the gospel, the hymn becomes even more compelling and is a theme song both for Overseas Missionary Fellowship and for movements of Chinese missionaries back to the rest of the world.