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

For 15 years, he directed the Asian branch of the Navigators.  In the 1950's he organized a massive follow-up program for 180,000 inquires in Taiwan through Orient Crusades and in Japan through Youth for Christ.  In 1962, he launched The Navigators work in Singapore where he lived for nine years.

In 1966, at the Billy Graham World Congress on Evangelism, he committed himself to even more intensive involvement in evangelism.  In the years that followed, he organized crusades for some of Asia’s leading evangelists in Malaysia, Viet Nam,   Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka.  He then 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 and work with them in public evangelism for two years, then sent them back to leadership roles in the evangelization of their own countries.

In 1976, TEL was formally incorporated in India and Indonesia and work is being done there by national staff he has trained.  He lived in the Philippines from 1977 to 1983 during which time he launched the TEL work there.  He has worked in the counselor training, coordinated counseling and follow up of three Billy Graham Crusades. Late in 1977, he was in-charge of this work at the Graham crusade in  Metro Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo.  He has sponsored India’s First National Training Program of Christian evangelists during 1981-’83.  In 1985 and 1986 he led summer gospel teams into China. 

While in China, he showed young Chinese Christians how to study the Bible and memorize Scripture and started a chain-reaction of discipleship that spread to 46 cities of inland China. Even when the communists were in power, he organized two co-operative public evangelistic rallies in the city of Shanghai.

After this, he moved his Asian headquarters to Hong Kong.  He teaches TEL training programs there and in other TEL bases in Asia.

A gifted Bible teacher, he has also been a pilot and was a flight instructor during World War II. He has studied at Texas A&M University, Southern Methodist University and took Chinese and Japanese studies at the University of Minnesota.

Roy Robertson currently supervises more than 100 staff in India, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, China and among various ethnic minorities in Asia.   He and wife Phyllis live in Hong Kong.  Four of their six children are missionaries and two are nurses.

More information on Roy Robertson and TEL will be published here as I get the information for the years 1986 to 2003. God continues to bless and grow this faithful ministry in Christ's service.

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