American Baptist International Ministries

American Baptist International Ministries
Founded	1814; 204 years ago (1814);
Founders	Walter Gowans; Rowland Bingham; Thomas Kent
Type	Non-profit
Headquarters	; King of Prussia, United States;
Location	70 countries;
Fields	; Christian Missionary Outreach
Affiliations	American Baptist Churches USA
Website	internationalministries.org

American Baptist 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, United States.

History[edit]

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 takes place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson. ^[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] It is renamed American Baptist Missionary Union in 1845, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910, American Board of International Ministries in 1973.^[4] In 2018, it has 1,800 volunteers in 70 countries. ^[5]

Prominent American Baptist Missionaries[edit]

George Boardman, Burma, 1801-1831

Clinton Caldwell Boone, 1901-1910

Lott Cary, Liberia, 1821-1828

John Taylor Jones, Thailand 1832-1851

Adoniram Judson, Burma, 1813-1850

William M. Mitchell, Canada, fl. 1859

Issachar Jacox Roberts, Macao and China, ca. 1837-1862

Charlotte White, India, 1816-1823

Louis F. Knoll, India

References[edit]

^ George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2016, p. 63

^ Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists: Traced by Their Vital Principles and Practices, The Baptist Standard Bearer, USA, 2001, p. 814

^ David Shavit, The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, USA, 1990, p. 7

^ 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

^ ABIM, HISTORY, internationalministries.org, USA, retrieved November 30, 2018

Primary sources[edit]

The Baptist missionary magazine Multiple issues online free from 19th century

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External links[edit]

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)

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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] 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

[5] ABIM, HISTORY, internationalministries.org, USA, retrieved November 30, 2018

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