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The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, [1] is a British Anglican mission society working with Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, [2] [3] CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission partners during its 200-year history. The society has also given its name "CMS" to ...
The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant [16] and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, [9] with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. [17]
The Baptist Missionary Association of America adopted its current name in 1969. [4] The majority of BMAA churches are concentrated in the Southern United States, but the association has churches across the United States and supports missions throughout the world. Most churches participate in local and state associations as well as the national ...
The bishops everywhere encouraged and urged them. The Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlin, in 1843, maintained that the people of every parish are entitled to have the benefit of a mission. During this period the German Church had missionaries who devoted themselves entirely to popular mission work: Peter Roh, Klinkhofström, Pottgieser. On the ...
In 1924 the national mission society was refounded as a society in support of those missions in the United States and its territories that did not receive funds from the Propagation of the Faith. In 1972 ABCM became the Bishops' Committee on the Home Missions, a standing committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). [7]
Anthony Norris Groves, referred to as the "father of faith missions". [3] Louisa Daniell, who ran a Mission Hall in Aldershot, the first of others across the UK; George Müller, who ran orphanages in the Bristol area of England. Other early leaders included: Arthur Tappan Pierson; Methodist Episcopal Church missionary bishop, William Taylor
Eastern Mennonite Missions (EMM) is a mission agency based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.EMM equips, sends, and supports mission workers in more than 30 countries. EMM's mission statement: Christ's transforming love compels us to cross cultures, engage the world, and make disciples of Jesus.
The history of Portuguese missionaries in India starts with the neo-apostles who reached Kappad near Kozhikode on 20 May 1498 along with Vasco da Gama, [4] which represented less than 2% of the total population [5] and was the largest Christian church within India. [4] He was seeking to form anti-Islamic alliances with pre-existing Christian ...