We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

However, the committee of this French Missionary Society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be " incorrect ".

In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).

Among its actions, the convention elected Alexander Campbell its President and created the American Christian Missionary Society ( ACMS ).

By the end of the century, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and the Christian Women's Board of Missions were also engaged in missionary activities.

Among the cooperative churches, the three Missionary Societies merged into the United Christian Missionary Society in 1920.

However, it remains ambiguous whether the discovery predates arrival of Europeans because of the presence of a Patagonian Missionary Society mission station on Keppel Island, founded in 1856.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ) was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate ( in 1892 ) being Sun Yat-sen ( 孫中山 ).

Some five years later, in 1772, Thomas Scott, later to become a biblical commentator and co-founder of the Church Missionary Society, took up the curacy of the neighbouring parishes of Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood.

The first Christian mission was founded on August 25, 1846, by Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German sponsored by the Church Missionary Society of England.

* London Missionary Society

Artisan missionary envoys from the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1818 and included such key figures as James Cameron, David Jones and David Griffiths, who established schools, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Roman alphabet, translated the Bible, and introduced a variety of new technologies to the island.

His father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a medical missionary doctor with the London Missionary Society of the Congregationalist tradition and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, had come to China as a missionary assistant.

* The Archive of the Methodist Missionary Society is held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

The next notable European visitors were from the London Missionary Society who arrived in 1846 on the " Messenger of Peace ".

The first missionaries from the London Missionary Society and the Marist Brothers arrived in the 1840s.

Christian missionaries from the London Missionary Society converted most of the population circa 1846.

* 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul ( d. 1933 )

Kaloost Varstan, an Armenian from Istanbul, arrived in 1864 and established the first medical missionary in Nazareth, the Scottish " hospital on the hill ", with sponsorship from the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.

Mission work in Samoa had begun in late 1830 by John Williams, of the London Missionary Society arriving in Sapapali ' i from The Cook Islands and Tahiti.

The Missionary Society offices are in Westerly, Rhode Island, and the Board of Christian Education has offices in Alfred Station, New York.

Project, a collective of volunteer relief workers, founded itself in January 2006 in the empty shell of the Corinne Missionary Baptist Church in Violet, LA, providing the tools for rebuilding and community empowerment.

* 1805-The first Christian missionaries arrive in Namibia, brothers Abraham and Christian Albrecht from the London Missionary Society

* 1859-Protestant missionaries arrive in Japan ; Revivals in North America and the British Isles generate interest in overseas missions ; Albert Benjamin Simpson ( founder of Christian and Missionary Alliance ) is converted by the revival ministry of Henry Grattan Guinness

Protestant Christianity did not arrive in China until Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society began work in 1807 at Macau.

Whalers and Protestant missionaries began to arrive in the early 19th century, particularly in the1830s, including John Williams of the London Missionary Society.

Missionary life was difficult as provisions did not arrive regularly, the jungles and terrain was difficult to traverse, and the islands were frequently devastated by typhoons.

It was first published in Gujarati as “ Alijah Missionary Sabzalibahi ’ ni Musafar ,” in the weekly Ismaili ( Bombay ) between February 17, 1924 and December 5, 1926.

His Grace Don Sebastian Pereira, Archbishop of Daman, who had his see at Colaba, Bombay and knew the Franciscan Missionary Brothers-CMSF, visited Bro.

Carey was a missionary to India and inspired the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.

There are also portraits of Joshua Marshman, Hannah Marshman, William Carey, and Willam Ward who were all missionaries to India and Andrew Fuller who was a missionary and first secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society.

* 1792-William Carey writes An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society to support him in establishing missionary work in India

* 1796-Scottish and Glasgow Missionary Societies established ; In India, Johann Philipp Fabricius ' translation of the Bible into Tamil is revised and published

His dying appeal was: " Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up "; Free Will Baptist Foreign Missionary Society begins work in India

* 1834-American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the Punjab ; Peter Parker MD, associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, first American Medical Missionary to China opens Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton

* 1836-Plymouth Brethren begin work in Madras, India ; George Müller begins his work with orphans in Bristol, England ; Gossner Mission formed ; Leipzig Mission Society established ; Colonial Missionary Society formed ; The Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed, one of at least six national organizations among African American Baptists whose sole objective was missionary work in Africa.

* 1841-Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society formed ; Welsh Methodists begin working among the Khasi people of India

* 1870-Clara Swain, the very first female missionary medical doctor, arrives at Bareilly, India ; Orthodox Missionary Society founded

* 1880-Woman missionary doctor Fanny Butler goes to India ; Missionary periodical The Gospel in All Lands is launched by A.

* 1938-West Indies Mission enters Dominican Republic ; Church Missionary Society forced out of Egypt ; Madras World Missionary Conference held ; Dr. Orpha Speicher completes construction of Reynolds Memorial Hospital in central India

As thinking developed, particularly in the context of decolonisation, and churches wanted to recognise the gifts of people of the South, the London Missionary Society transformed into the Council for World Mission – an organisation in which the United Reformed Church is no more important than the Church of South India ( for example )

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

He became a leader among evangelical churchmen, was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1799, the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews ( now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ ) in 1809, and acted as adviser to the British East India Company in the choice of chaplains for India.

Living at first in India, he returned to England at the age of eleven, and was educated at the Church Missionary Society School in Islington, then at Repton School.

ICST classes include the following: Introduction to Missions, Cultural Anthropology, Church in Missions, Career Missionary Preparation, Church-based Leadership Development, Small Group and House Church Movements, Contemporary Mission Problems and Issues, Missionary Discipleship and Church Planting, History and Survey of Missions, Missionary Relationships, Theology of Missions, Women ’ s Roles in Missions, World Religions, Introduction to Islam, Survey of India and Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, World Cults, and Animism.

* Joseph Taylor ( missionary ) ( died 1859 ), London Missionary Society missionary in Gujarat, India

* Johann Christian Freidrich Heyer, Lutheran minister in America, First Lutheran Missionary from America to India ( 1841 )

He visited India in 1965 for the first time and joined Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj ( EMSM ), working in this remote tribal area, with a long history of missionary activity.