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As of 2022, The Gideons reported having 269,500 members in 200 countries and territories. [8]Membership in The Gideons International generally constitutes current or retired business or professional men (except clergy) aged 21 or older who are members in good standing of an evangelical or Protestant church and adhere to the core spiritual beliefs of the organization.
The Protestant missions concentrated on Spanish-speaking ladino overseers as converts instead of on the speakers of minority indigenous languages. Townsend wished to see a mission that sought to produce indigenous-run, self-sufficient, Bible-based Christian congregations. He believed that this could lead to a more just society, trusting that if ...
The formation of the Bible Missionary Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States. [1] Prior to its existence, a multitude of conservative Nazarene Preachers felt that their denomination, the Church of the Nazarene (a denomination whose founder was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church), [4] [5] was heading towards modernism; one of them was named Rev. Glenn Griffith ...
Bible League Canada, founded in 1948, is a charitable organization whose mission is to place Bibles into the hands of men, women and young people who want them. [1] They do this through four strategic ministry programs including church planter training, adult Bible-based literacy programs, children's ministries, and supporting Christians persecuted for their faith.
Crosslinks is an evangelical Anglican missionary society, drawing its support mainly from parishes in the Church of England and Church of Ireland. It was known as the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society (BCMS) until 1992. The BCMS was created as the result of a conservative split from the Church Missionary Society. [1]
The Missionary Church is a Trinitarian body which believes the Bible is the inspired Word of God and authoritative in all matters of faith; that "salvation is the result of genuine repentance of sin and faith in the atoning work of Christ"; and that the "church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus who have been vitally united by faith to Christ".
1819 Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society; 1826 American Home Missionary Society; 1832 American Baptist Home Mission Society; 1833 Free-will Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in India; 1835 Protestant Episcopal Church Mission; 1837 Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church (North) 1837 Evangelical Lutheran Foreign ...
The Society also published reliegious tracts by women writers for use in overseas missions like the Missionary Birthday Book compiled by Lucy Currie, a missionary in Punjab, India. The Birthday book provided a daily passage for each day of the year with a bible verse, a hymn verse, and a piece of missionary history. [21]