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Members of the Jesuit delegation to China were perhaps the most influential Christian missionaries in that country between the earliest period of the religion up until the 19th century, when significant numbers of Catholic and Protestant missions developed. A map of the 200-odd Jesuit churches and missions established across China c. 1687.
Ideas for Social Action: A Handbook on Mission and Service for Christian Young People. Youth Specialties. 1983. ISBN 9780910125031. You Can Make a Difference. Word Books. 1984. ISBN 9780849929793. It's Friday, But Sunday's Comin'. Word Books. 1984. ISBN 9780849903694. We Have Met the Enemy, and They are Partly Right. Jarrell. 1985.
Memorial plaque for the origin of the Student Volunteer Movement, July 1886, Northfield Mount Hermon School Conference memorial Arthur Tappan Pierson founder of SVM The social and religious milieu of the late nineteenth century was favorable in nearly all ways for the birth and growth of a movement such as the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
Jehovah's Witnesses' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).
Echoes of Service is a missionary support agency founded in 1872 based in Bath, England. [1] Their main purpose is to serve missionaries around the world, and those commended from Christian Brethren assemblies/ churches in particular, amongst whom missionary activity is common.
Anthony Norris Groves (1 February 1795 – 20 May 1853) was an English Protestant missionary, [1] who has been called the "father of faith missions".He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, Ottoman Empire; and later in southern India.
The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS; founded 1880), [1] also known as the Church of England Zenana Mission, was a British Anglican missionary society established to spread Christianity in India via women. It would later expand its Christian missionary work into Japan and Qing Dynasty China.
Redemptoris missio (Latin for The Mission of the Redeemer), subtitled On the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate, is an encyclical by Pope John Paul II published on 7 December 1990. The release coincided with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Vatican II's Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity, Ad gentes . [ 1 ]