Robert Pierce was an American Baptist minister and relief worker.
10 Facts About Robert Pierce
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Robert Pierce is best known as the founder of the international charity organizations World Vision International in 1950 and Samaritan's Purse in 1970.
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Robert Pierce moved with his family to southern California in the mid-1920s.
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Robert Pierce attended Pasadena Nazarene College and studied for the ministry.
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Robert Pierce was deeply aroused by the wartime poverty and human suffering that he witnessed in both China and Korea and in 1950 he founded World Vision International, at least partly due to his associations with local pastors such as Korean Presbyterian minister Kyung-Chik Han.
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Robert Pierce seems to me to be one of the few naturally, uncontrollably honest men I have ever met.
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Robert Pierce was a filmmaker and during his leadership World Vision used movies, shown mainly for church audiences, as the main marketing tool.
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Since in the worldview of Robert Pierce Christianity was the only religion able to counter communism, these movies were full of anti-communist cold war rhetoric and promoted Christian missionizing as a way to counter communism.
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Robert Pierce began having marital issues with his wife, and decided to "temporarily" move away from his family.
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Robert Pierce was then diagnosed with blood cancer, which caused his wife, Lorraine, concern.