The Foundation has been named after John Paton, 1824-1907, Missionary to the New Hebrides, whose story has inspired many to support and send gospel workers for training, and to be trained and sent themselves. John Paton was raised in Dumfriesshire, trained in Glasgow, then worked for ten years with enormous success among the ordinary people of Glasgow, teaching Bible classes with Glasgow City Mission.  He then headed to the New Hebrides, to what we today call Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, and at great personal cost brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to many.