International Ministries (organization)

International MinistriesFounded| 1814; 211 years ago (1814)

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Founders| Walter Gowans
Rowland Bingham
Thomas Kent
Type| Non-profit
Headquarters| King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States
Location|

* 70 countries

Fields| Christian Missionary Outreach
Affiliations| American Baptist Churches USA
Website| internationalministries.org

International Ministries is an international Baptist Christian missionary society. It is a constituent board affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. The headquarters is in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States.

## History

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Adoniram Judson, co-founder of the Missionary Society

The society was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA).[1] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814.[2] Other missions that followed took place in Siam in 1833, India in 1840, China in 1842, Japan in 1872 and Philippines in 1900.[3] 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]

## Prominent American Baptist missionaries

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* William Thomas Amiger, Liberia, 1919–1923[7]
* George Boardman, Burma, 1801–1831
* Clinton Caldwell Boone, 1901–1910
* Lott Cary, Liberia, 1821–1828
* David Crockett Graham, Sichuan, China, 1911–1948
* Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828-1902), Burma 1851–1902
* John Taylor Jones, Thailand 1832–1851
* Adoniram Judson, Burma, 1813–1850
* Louis F. Knoll, India
* William M. Mitchell, Canada, fl. 1859
* Issachar Jacox Roberts, Macao and China, ca. 1837–1862
* Charlotte White, Digah, India, 1816–1826

## See also

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The first chapel in the proximity of Kintambo, now "avenue de l'Avenir", quartier Basoko, Ngaliema, founded 1891 by Sims Aaron, legal representative to ABFMS.

* 19th-century Protestant missions in China
* American Baptist Home Mission Society
* Baptist Christianity in Sichuan
* Central Philippine University (The first Baptist university in Asia established by William Orison Valentine)
* Christianity in China
* Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches
* Emmanuel Baptist Church (Yangon, Burma)
* List of Protestant missionaries in China
* Protestant missionary societies in China during the 19th Century
* Timeline of Chinese history

## References

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1. ^ George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2016, p. 63
2. ^ Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists: Traced by Their Vital Principles and Practices, The Baptist Standard Bearer, USA, 2001, p. 814
3. ^ David Shavit, The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, USA, 1990, p. 7
4. ^ Larsson, Mats (2007). De "riktigt kristna", deras "wänner" och "motståndare" : en lokal- och frikyrkohistorisk studie av Askers baptistförsamlings identitet och mentalitet, 1858-1887 (in Swedish). LiU-Tryck). Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. ISBN 978-91-85831-24-1. OCLC 277196809.
5. ^ Daniel G. Reid, Robert D. Linder, Bruce Shelley, Harry S. Stout, Craig A. Noll, Concise Dictionary of Christianity in America, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2002, p. 14
6. ^ ABIM, HISTORY, internationalministries.org, USA, retrieved November 30, 2018
7. ^ "Liberian Missionary". The Morning Union. 1919-10-02. Retrieved 2024-11-08 – via Newspapers.com.

### Primary sources

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* The Baptist missionary magazine Multiple issues online free from 19th century
* American Presbyterian Mission (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.

## External links

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* American Baptist International Ministries Official Website
* American Baptist Historical Society website
* Proceedings of the Baptist convention for missionary purposes: held in Philadelphia, in May, 1814, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (Printed for the convention by Ann Coles, 1814)