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The logo of Church Missionary Society in 1799. The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Udny of the East India Company and David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University.
It was called the "Boji Church" (博济堂), and it was at Mitingzi (米亭子). [2] [1] In 1876, the church was burnt during an anti-Christian riot in Jiangbei. It was rebuilt in 1881. [1] [3] According to the Catholic Church in Chongqing, the church building was destroyed during the riots of 1881 and 1897–1898. It was rebuilt after each riot.
The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society ( CMS ), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; [ 1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world.
e. The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself nationally. [4] In 1939, the MEC reunited with two breakaway Methodist denominations (the Methodist Protestant Church and ...
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.
The Church Missionary Society in India was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, [1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, other Protestants, and Orthodox Christians around the world.
When the London Missionary Society combined with other missions to create the Council for World Mission (CWM) in 1977, the CCCS became a part of this global missionary effort as well. An ecclesial schism took place within the Samoan church in 1980, with the American Samoa district withdrawing and forming the Congregational Christian Church of ...
William Burns Thomson (1821 – April 29, 1893) was a Scottish medical missionary born in Kirriemuir, Scotland to Christian parents. Thomson dedicated his life to the spread of the gospel and to medical missionary work. His work as part of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society ( EMMS) transformed the organization from its focus on the slums ...