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Grace & Truth Press was founded by [[Elmo Clair Hadley|Elmo Clair "E.C." Hadley]] was born on December 10in 1931, 1894 at Watseka, Iroquoisbased in Danville, [[Illinois]]. He was It is self-advertised as one of the eldest largest distributors of three children of Zimri Elmer Hadley (b. Watsekafree Christian literature to the third world, [[Illinois|IL]]) publishing gospel and ministry tracts and Docia W. Weaver Hadley (b. Mountain Homebooklets in twelve languages, [[Alabama|AL]]), who were married on Decproducing about 18 million tracts annually. 28, 1892 in home of ElmerThey also publish a monthly periodical ''s parents in Watseka. Elmer Grace & Docia were active [[Quakers]], from a long tradition within Truth Magazine'' (1933-present) that spiritual heritagecirculates in 71 countries with devotional and doctrinal articles to encourage and edify believers.
When E.C. registered for the draft on June 5, 1917 during World War One, he requested exemption as a conscientious objector on the grounds that he was employed as a Quaker preacher. =Also See= On July 16, 1919, E.C. was issued a passport for a journey commencing Aug. 14 of that same year settling on Sept. 22 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamako Bamako], the capital of the West African nation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali Mali].  His initial trip to Mali was sponsored by one of the oldest missionary sending agencies in the U.S., [[Avant Ministries|Gospel Missionary Union]], known since 2003 as ''[https://avantministries.org/ Avant Ministries]''. This agency was the first evangelical mission to enter Mali, as well as Ecuador (of which Roger Youdarian, one of the five 1956 martyrs was included). It is headquartered in Kansas City, [[Missouri]], and has since added a Canadian HQ at Winnipeg, [[Manitoba]], and was founded in 1892 by the Secretary of the Kansas State Y.M.C.A., George S. Fisher, whose parents had served the Lord in Jamaica. In 1975, the Evangelical Union of South America (inaugurated at the Keswick Convention in Liverpool, [[England]] in 1911 merged with GMU, and in 2019 Camino Global (formerly Central American Mission) joined. It has been supported since 1916 by the * [https://www.opendoorinfogtpress.org/ Church of the Open Door] in Leavenworth, [[Kansas]].  In 1920, E.C. requested citizenship to be able to return to an address in Kansas City when his term expired.  In 1925, he left as a missionary to the French Sudan (now the Mali Republic) in northwest Africa. While on furlough in Switzerland, he met Lydia Chevalley, who became his wife, and '''may''' have been his introduction to the PB, given their historic presence in that country since the 1840's. After E.C. contracted a tropical disease that forced his return to the U.S.   He died in 1981 in Danville.  ** founder in 1931 of (KLC) [[Grace & Truth Press, Danville, IL|Grace & Truth]] in Danville, [[Illinois]], today one of the largest distributors of free Christian literature to the third world, publishing gospel and ministry tracts and booklets in twelve languages, producing about 18 million tracts annually. They also publish a monthly periodical ''Grace & Truth Magazine'' (1933-present) that circulates in 71 countries with devotional and doctrinal articles to encourage and edify believers.  =Sources=* [https://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.coms website] including but not limited to:** The Christian Worker: 1892 Jan - 1893 Dec., p. 75.