Paris Reidhead

Paris Reidhead was a Christian evangelist, teacher, writer, and advocate for economic development in impoverished nations. He was born in Minnesota and committed himself to a life of Christian service in his late teens. He worked with the Sudan Interior Mission surveying and analyzing indigenous languages, where he had a spiritual crisis and became convinced that much of evangelicalism had adopted philosophies contrary to Biblical teachings. Upon his return to the US, he worked as a Deputation Secretary of SIM, taught at national conferences, and was a pastor at New York City's Gospel Tabernacle. He was committed to enabling impoverished people in developing nations to help themselves and rise out of poverty and founded the Institute for International Development and Enterprise Development International, a non-profit Christian organization for economic development. He died in Woodbridge, Virginia in 1992.