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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 ...
Margaret Nicholl Laird (31 July 1897 – June 1983) was an American missionary of the Baptist Mid-Missions who worked in the French colony of Ubangi-Shari and independent Central African Republic (CAR) from 1922 until the 1960s. She was one of the founders and longest serving missionaries of the Baptist Mid-Missions in the CAR.
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
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 ...
The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention was established in 1897 out of the National Baptist Convention, USA. [3] The convention was named for Lott Carey (1780-1828), a former African American slave who was the first American Baptist missionary to Africa. [1] In addition, Carey established the first Baptist church in Liberia. It was named the ...
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Converge, formerly the Baptist General Conference (BGC) and Converge Worldwide, is a Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the National Association of Evangelicals. The headquarters are in Orlando, Florida. The current president of Converge is John K. Jenkins.