In 1917 he helped found the American Friends Service Committee . In 1927 Jones took a trip to Asia at the invitation of the YMCA . His main purpose was to address missionaries in China , but he made stops in Japan , India , and Palestine as well . While in India , Jones visited Mahatma Gandhi and the birthplace of the Buddha . This trip helped Jones formulate a new approach to missions &mdash; that of giving humanitarian aid to people while respecting other religions and not aggressively converting people to one 's own religion . In 1938 he went with George Walton and D. Robert Yarnall on a mission to Nazi Germany to try to help Jewish people there after Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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