sentences:  He found that the people he was to serve were living lives of poverty and ignorance, functioning as virtual serfs to their Muslim rulers.To address these matters, he established a missionary center in Urmia in 1835, with himself, Asahel Grant (an American physician), and their respective wives Charlotte and Judith (née Campbell).Perkins was taught by Qasha Auraham and Mar Yohannan, the latter the Assyrian Church of the East bishop of Urmia.