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Paradise Missionary Baptist Church, in Tampa, Florida Cornel West preaching at a Missionary Baptist church in New Jersey. Missionary Baptists are a group of Baptists that grew out of the missionary / anti-missionary controversy that divided Baptists in the United States in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary Baptists following the pro-missions movement position. [1]
George Grenfell (1849-1906), explorer and BMS missionary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Dr Clement Clapton Chesterman (1920-1936), the first to implement successfully mass chemotherapy for Trypanosomiasis. He worked at Yakusu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Timothy Richard was a well-known Baptist missionary to China.
The Baptist Missionary Association of America adopted its current name in 1969. [4] The majority of BMAA churches are concentrated in the Southern United States , but the association has churches across the United States and supports missions throughout the world.
In England, there was the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 at Kettering, England. [12] [13] William Carey write a pamphlet in 1792, "An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of Heathen" and was the first missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society. [14] He went to Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1793.
William Carey (missionary) – Missionary in India Founder of the baptist missionary society; Chow Leung – Missionary to Chicago Chinatown; William Goldsack; Adoniram Judson – American missionary to Burma whose conversion to Baptist beliefs en route to the mission field led to the founding of the first Baptist association in the U.S.
In January 1849 the board began The Commission magazine to keep constituents informed of the mission work being carried out. Monthly circulation of the periodical reached 7,000 by April 1850. It eventually became an online magazine with an occasional print issue. Their first publication, Southern Baptist Missionary Journal, is defunct. Lottie Moon
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When the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) was founded in 1832, it was patterned after the older American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) (1814) and the even older Massachusetts Domestic Missionary Society (1802), which was organized to "furnish occasional preaching, and to promote the knowledge of evangelic truth in the new settlements of these United States, or further ...