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BMS World Mission, officially Baptist Missionary Society, is a Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792. The headquarters is in Didcot , England. History
Pastor Johannes Jaenicke. The precursor to the BMS, Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Evangelischen Missionen unter den Heiden ("Society for the Advancement of the Evangelical Mission among the Heathen"), was founded on 29 February 1824 by a group of eleven pious laymen from the Prussian nobility, with the initial primary aim of raising funding for the training of missionaries.
Johannes August Winter (17 December 1847 – 7 April 1921) [1] was a German Lutheran missionary for the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) who played an important role in the formation of the Lutheran Bapedi Church in South Africa at the turn of the 19th century, against a backdrop of competing political and economic power struggles between British, Afrikaner and native tribal interests.
He obtained his B.A. in 1912, followed by a B.D. in 1914. That same year, he was appointed by the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) as a missionary in northern China. [3] Drake was among the first missionaries in Jinan to enjoy friendly relations with the Guiyidao, a locally prominent folk religious sect. In 1922, he led a group of theology ...
Carey finally overcame the resistance to missionary effort, and the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen (subsequently the Baptist Missionary Society and since 2000 BMS World Mission) was founded in October 1792, including Carey, Andrew Fuller, John Ryland, and John Sutcliff as charter members. They ...
The schools were established by the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) and were mainly under the care of the foreign missionaries and several secular foreign men and women along with the local Christian community. The Baptists established the schools to uplift the education and living standards of the Ceylonese and to spread the Gospel. By the ...
The BMS World Mission was organised as Baptist Missionary Society in 1792, under the leadership of Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), John Sutcliff (1752–1814), and William Carey (1761–1834). [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
Botshabelo ("place of refuge" in the Northern Sotho language) in the district of Middelburg, in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, originated as a mission station established by Alexander Merensky of the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS), in February 1865 in what was then the Transvaal Republic (ZAR).