International Ministries (organization) explained

International Ministries
Type:	Non-profit
Founders:	Walter Gowans Rowland Bingham Thomas Kent
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

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

• 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

• 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

Primary sources

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

External links

• 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)

Notes and References

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. Book: Larsson, Mats. De "riktigt kristna", deras "wänner" och "motståndare" : en lokal- och frikyrkohistorisk studie av Askers baptistförsamlings identitet och mentalitet, 1858-1887. 2007. Linköping University Electronic Press. LiU-Tryck). 978-91-85831-24-1. Linköping. sv. 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. https://www.internationalministries.org/history/ ABIM, HISTORY, internationalministries.org, USA, retrieved November 30, 2018