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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
There are three functions of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. Worldwide missions, training, and communication. The Baptist Bible Tribune, published monthly, contains numerous opinion pieces, reports from the foreign mission field, reports from domestic churches, and light theological treatises. It is written by BBFI officers, pastors ...
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]