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1842 – Church Missionary Society enters Badagry, Lagos. 1842 – Gossner Mission Society receives royal sanction; [260] Norwegian Missionary Society formed in Stavanger. [208] 1842 – Christian Mission to the Jews (CMJ) establishes Christ Church, first Anglican church in the Old City of Jerusalem.
1792 Baptist Missionary Society; 1795 London Missionary Society; 1796 Scottish Missionary Society; 1799 Church Missionary Society; 1799 Religious Tract Society; 1804 British and Foreign Bible Society; 1809 London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ) 1813 Wesleyan ...
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 ...
Alexander Campbell around 1855. Prior to the establishment of the American Christian Missionary Society (ACMS), Alexander Campbell had actively opposed missionary societies on the basis that they preempted the church's role in missions and served as a focus for division, insisting that the church itself should be the only missionary society. [1]
The Sheo Yang Mission; Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East; Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge Among the Chinese; Society for the Restoration of Orthodox Christianity in the Caucasus; Society of African Missions; Soul Winning and Prayer Union; Student Volunteer Movement; Svenska Mongol- och Japanmissionen
The missionary efforts and other work of the Jesuits in 16th, 17th, and 18th century played a significant role in introducing European science and culture to China. Their work laid much of the foundation for much of Christian culture in Chinese society today.
The Protestant Episcopal Church Mission (PECM, also known as the American Church Mission) [1] was a Christian missionary initiative of the Episcopal Church that was involved in sending and providing financial support to lay and ordained mission workers in growing population centers in the west of the United States as well as overseas in China, Liberia and Japan during the second half of the ...
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed ...