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The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, [1] is a British Anglican mission society working with Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, [2] [3] CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission partners during its 200-year history. The society has also given its name "CMS" to ...
CME Church bishops may be male or female. In 2006, there were an estimated 850,000 members in 3,500 churches. [3] As of 2021, the CME Church has grown to more than 1.5 million members across the United States with mission and sister churches in Haiti, Jamaica and fourteen African nations. [1]
Eugene Stock (1836–1928), was an English author, historian, journal editor and senior editorial secretary at the Church Missionary Society in London.Widely regarded as an authority among his contemporaries, Stock is best known for his four-volume work, The History of the Church Missionary Society , published in 1899, which is considered the most thorough account on the history of the Church ...
She was a founder in 1918 of the Woman’s Connectional Missionary Council, the first woman-run society within the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME), and became its first president, a position she held for 20 years, until a few years before she died. In that role she worked closely with white women of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...
The Church Missionary Society in the Middle East and North Africa, operated through branch organisations, such as the Mediterranean Mission (for countries bordering on the Mediterranean), with the mission extending to Palestine (Jerusalem, Gaza, Jaffa, Nazareth, Nablus and Transjordan), Iran (Persia), Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and the Sudan.
Nathan Bangs was also instrumental in the establishment of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1819 to help support foreign mission work. While missionaries were appointed and supervised by the bishops, the missionary society raised funds to support them. [75] In 1834, a Liberian Annual Conference was organized.
Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius (5 November 1790 – 5 June 1838) was a German-born missionary of the Church Mission Society (CMS). He was the first CMS missionary to arrive at India. For his missionary work in the Tirunelveli district he came to be known as the "Apostle of Tirunelveli".
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was appalled by slavery in the British colonies.When the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was founded in the United States at the "Christmas Conference" synod meeting of ministers at the Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore in December 1784, the denomination officially opposed slavery very early.