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Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British Baptist missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society.In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons.
Baptist Missions (BM) is a Baptist mission organisation and a department of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (ABC). [2] It is located in the Baptist Centre and is shared with ABC. The scope of their activities is international in scale covering several countries including France , Latvia , Peru , the Republic of Ireland , Russia ...
BMS opened missions in China in 1860. It began operating in China's Shanxi province in 1877, despite local hostility toward “foreign devils.” In the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 all its missionaries there were killed, along with all 120 converts . [7] Francis Augustus Cox wrote a history of the Baptist Missionary Society from its formation until ...
There are different affiliate groups within the convention and these promote missions growth and evangelism as well as targeting the special needs of each group . These include Baptist Men's Fellowship - BMF; Women's Missionary Union - WMU; Baptist Haven of Hope - a group for Single parents; Baptist Youth Student Department - BYSD
Primitive Baptists – also known as Regular Baptists, Old School Baptists, Foot Washing Baptists, or, derisively, Hard Shell Baptists [2] – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.
By 2006, Baptist Mid-Missions supported nearly 1000 missionaries in 50 countries and in all six inhabited continents. [2] Baptist Mid-Missions' focus is on church planting, which is supported by ministries such as Bible translation/literacy, seminaries, camps, broadcasting, publishing, and disaster relief.
Baptist World Mission (BWM) is an independent, Baptist missionary agency located at 201 Gordon Drive SW in Decatur, Alabama; [1] it also has a center in New Brunswick, Canada. BWM was established in 1961 in Chicago. [2] In 2021, they had a recorded income of approximately $260,000. [3]
In the late 1800s, the society helped fund the Swedish Baptist conference's new seminary, Bethel Seminary, in Stockholm. [4] It was renamed American Baptist Missionary Union in 1845, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910, and American Board of International Ministries in 1973. [5] In 2018, it had 1,800 volunteers in 70 countries. [6]