John Wesley Haley
John Wesley Haley (August 25, 1878, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada - January 26, 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) was pastor, missionary and mission strategist. He grew up in a farming family near Sarnia, Ontario, was involved in church planting in Saskatchewan, worked as a missionary in Mozambique, South Africa, and Burundi. After serving for many years as a Free Methodist Church missionary in Southern Africa, Haley and his family moved to Burundi in the African Great Lakes Region and initiated new church planting work. Haley was profoundly influenced by the writings of Roland Allen and the idea of the indigenous church principle in cross-cultural mission strategy. Early life John Wesley Haley was born in Bracebridge (Muskoka), Ontario on August 25, 1878. His family moved to Sombra, Ontario. In 1898, John Haley was converted at a Free Methodist camp meeting held on his father's farm in Lambton County, Ontario. In 1900, he was appointed by the West Ontario Conference to assist Rev. W.H. Wilson in pioneering in Western Canada (Manitoba/Saskatchewan). In 1901, he was granted a local preacher's license. Career Haley sailed for Africa in 1902 where he spent many years as a missionary in Mozambique (first called Portuguese East Africa) and South