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It merged operations with other missions entities to form the United Church Board for World Ministries, an agency of the United Church of Christ. Other organizations that draw inspiration from the ABCFM include InterVarsity Christian Fellowship , the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference , and the Missionary Society of the National ...
International Ministries: Tertiary institutions: 16: Seminaries: 10: Other name(s) Northern Baptist Convention (1907–1950) American Baptist Convention (1950–1972) Official website: www.abc-usa.org
The society was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA). [1] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. [2]
When the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) was founded in 1832, it was patterned after the older American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) (1814) and the even older Massachusetts Domestic Missionary Society (1802), which was organized to "furnish occasional preaching, and to promote the knowledge of evangelic truth in the new settlements of these United States, or further ...
Missionary organizations favored the development of the movement on all continents. The BMS World Mission was founded in 1792 at Kettering, England. [57] [58] In United States, International Ministries was founded in 1814, and the International Mission Board was founded in 1845. [59] [60]
The Alliance World Fellowship (or The Alliance, also C&MA and CMA) is an evangelical Christian denomination [3] [1] [2] It includes 6.2 million members throughout 88 countries within 22,000 churches. History
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, Nightline, Primetime, 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became well known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups.