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When mainland China was closed to missionaries in the 1950s, the Society responded to the urgent call from Latin America and Columbans went to new urban settlements in Peru and Chile. The Society also responded to the missionary needs of the Church in Fiji (1952). Still more recently, the Society has gone to Pakistan, Taiwan, Brazil, Jamaica ...
The relationship between Paul the Apostle and women is an important element in the theological debate about Christianity and women because Paul was the first writer to give ecclesiastical directives about the role of women in the Church. However, there are arguments that some of these writings are post-Pauline interpolations.
William Taylor (missionary) William Taylor (1821–1902) was an American Methodist missionary reverend, who in 1884 was elected by the Methodist General Conference as bishop over the Methodist missions in Africa for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Taylor spent most of his adult life performing missionary work around the world.
They soon fell in love and became engaged. During their three-year engagement, Catherine constantly wrote letters of encouragement to William as he performed the tiring work of a preacher. They were married on 16 June 1855 [4] at Stockwell Green Congregational Church in London. Their wedding was very simple, as they wanted to use their time and ...
Stephen Paxson (1808–1881) was an American Protestant missionary with the American Sunday School Union. He is known for starting over 1,300 Sunday schools in frontier rural America with a total attendance of about 83,000 and is known as the Apostle to Children and possibly the single biggest influence in evangelizing the American frontier.
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.
London. Around 1900, the London Missionary Society produced a series of glass magic lantern slides, including this one, depicting the missionary efforts of David Livingstone. The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister ...
United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) is a United Kingdom-based charitable organization (registered charity no. 234518). [2]It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) as a high church missionary organization of the Church of England and was active in the Thirteen Colonies of North America. [3]