TEL-China

Rev. Roy Robertson

Founder and International Director

Roy Robertson, Founder and Director of Training Evangelistic Leadership, Inc., went to China in 1948 as the first missionary of The Navigators.  He trained disciples, supervised a Scripture memory follow-up course that reached to 46 cities, and organized two cooperative public evangelistic meetings.

For fifteen years he directed the Asian branch of The Navigators.  In the 1950's he organized a massive follow up program for 180,000 inquirers in Taiwan through Orient Crusades and in Japan through Youth for Christ.  In 1962 he launched The Navigator's work in Singapore, where he lived for nine years.  During the 1960's he also organized crusades for some of Asia's leading evangelists in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka.

Then he began raising up young Asian evangelists through "Training Evangelistic Leadership" in Singapore, Japan and Indonesia.  He had training programs in his home and led out gospel teams.  He lived in the Philippines from 1977 to 1983 during which time he launched the TEL work there.  In 1985 and 1986 he led summer gospel teams into China.

After this he moved his Asia headquarters to Hong Kong.  In addition to teaching TEL training programs there and in the other bases, he has coordinated Billy Graham Crusade counseling and follow-up for the Metro Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo Crusades.

Robertson currently supervises more than one hundred fulltime staff in India, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, China and among various ethnic minorities in Asia.  He and his wife Phyllis live in Hong Kong.  Four of their six children are missionaries and two are nursing students.

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