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The English Wesleyan Mission (also known as a Wesleyan Missionary Society) was a British Methodist missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as New Zealand and China in the 19th century.
William White (11 February 1794 – 25 November 1875) was an English-born missionary for the Wesleyan Church in early colonial New Zealand. Born in England, White came to New Zealand in 1823 to establish the first Wesleyan mission in the country, at Kaeo, near Whangaroa Harbour.
The Wesleyan Church, ... Global Partners is the official non-profit missions organization. The Wesleyan Church world headquarters are in Fishers, Indiana, ...
The Wesleyan Methodist Church followed John and Charles Wesley in holding to an Arminian theology, in contrast to the Calvinism held by George Whitefield, by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion), and by Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland, the pioneers of Welsh Methodism. Its Conference was ...
82) [2] Wesleyan village chapel and school near Bangalore, by Thomas Hodson (1859) [3] Thomas Hodson was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah and Gubbi. He helped in running the first Wesleyan Mission Canarese school in the erstwhile Mysore State.
Peter Percival, aged 23, was sent to Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka in 1826 by the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, with concerns whether his appointment is risky in "an atmosphere of immoral heathenism". [3] At his arrival the missionary society and its efforts had not produced results expected by their original expectations and goals.
Rev. John Breeden (9 May 1872 –1942) was an English Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary in the Madras Presidency.He was an educationalist and the founder of St George's Homes, an orphanage-cum-school for abandoned and deprived children of Eurasians or Anglo-Indians in Kodaikanal, later renamed as The Laidlaw Memorial School, Ketti in the Nilgiris.
Wesleyan Church, East Parade (C H Doveton, 1900) [3] Bangalore, South India, 1898, Rough Map by Rev. T E Slater of LMS showing the location of the Wesleyan Mission Chapel [4] The Wesleyan Tamil Mission in the Bangalore Cantonment was established in 1821. [5] [6] In November 1821, Elijah Hoole of the Wesleyan Mission applied to the Government of ...