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Josiah Nelson Cushing was an American Baptist missionary who worked in Burma from 1866 to 1905. [3] He was the author of the first English Grammar of the Shan Language (1871) and the first Shan-English Dictionary (1881). He was also responsible for the translation of the Holy Bible into the Shan language.
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]
Johnston Lykins (April 15, 1800 – August 15, 1876) was a pioneering Baptist missionary to Native American tribes, and a founding civic booster in the frontier boomtowns of West Port and Kansas, Missouri, which combined and became Kansas City, Missouri.
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.
Thomas Jefferson Bowen (1814–1875) was an American expatriate Baptist missionary who spent considerable time of his missionary activities in Ijaye, Ogbomosho and a few other towns within the present Oyo State. His work established the foundation of the Baptist mission in Nigeria. [1]
Bill White watches as a crew with NC Baptists on Mission Disaster Relief work to remove trees from his home in Arden, N.C. on Monday, September 30, 2024.
Margaret Nicholl Laird (31 July 1897 – June 1983) was an American missionary of the Baptist Mid-Missions who worked in the French colony of Ubangi-Shari and independent Central African Republic (CAR) from 1922 until the 1960s. She was one of the founders and longest serving missionaries of the Baptist Mid-Missions in the CAR.
Merrick was born in August 1808 in Jamaica. [1]Merrick began preaching in 1837 in Jamaica [2] and was ordained a full missionary in 1838. [3] In 1842, Reverend John Clarke and Dr. G. K. Prince, members of the Baptist Missionary Society of London, were seeking Jamaican lay missionaries to join them on an expedition to the Cameroon coast.