InterVarsity, Inter-Varsity Canada, and Groupes Bibliques Universitaires et Collegiaux of French-speaking Canada co-host Urbana Missions Conference, a triennial student missions convention, named for the campus town where it was held for many years.

The SCM gave them permission to use the old ( 1879 ) name and so the OICCU was born anew, adopting the Doctrinal Basis of the new Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions ( now UCCF ) in 1928.

* Inter-Varsity Press ( IVP ), the publishing wing of the United Kingdom-based Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship.

* InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a similar organization in the United States of America, which Inter-Varsity Canada gave birth to.

* Baker, David L., Two Testaments, One Bible ( second edn ; Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1991 ): pp. 35, 48-52.

* God's Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible ( 2002: Inter-Varsity Press ) ISBN 978-0-8308-5364-9

* Life's Big Questions: Six Major Themes Traced Through the Bible ( 2004: Inter-Varsity Press ) ISBN 978-0-8308-5367-0

At the 1946 NBC meeting, the old convention made it clear that it would not allow a competing missionary agency to operate within it.

The beauty and tranquility of the Blue Ridge Mountains led Congregationalist minister John C. Collins to form the Mountain Retreat Association in 1897 “ for the encouragement of Christian work and living through Christian convention, public worship, missionary work, schools, and libraries .” By 1907, J. R. Howerton of Charlotte, North Carolina, conceived and carried out the idea of purchasing Montreat for the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

Saint Boniface () ( c. 7th century – 5 June 754 ), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton ( now in Devon, England ), was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century.

Saint Ninian ( traditionally 4th-5th century ) is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland.

Frustrated in his attempts at a new ministry, Bachiler left Hampton and went as missionary to Strawbery Banke ( now Portsmouth, New Hampshire ) probably that same year 1644.

Foreign churchmen and native elites were energetic in furthering the interests of Christianity, which was now no longer operating simply on a missionary footing, and old ideologies and lifestyles were transforming.

He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did standard service as a missionary and is now a counselor in his church ward.

The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was now designated to provide missionary programs for the eastern European Slavs.

From 1652 he also worked as a country " missionary ", in among other places Polotsk, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where he was probably stationed in 1655, and also in Pinsk, Lithuania ( both now in Belarus ).

The title " minster " is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title.

Lykins was a Baptist missionary to the Native American Indian tribes in the area, and had built a school for them in what is now rural Miami County.

Native American Indians, then Spanish explorers such as Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in 1541, and French missionary explorers in 1673 lived and traveled throughout the area of what is now Paola.

A dozen years later the order moved its headquarters to Saint Stephen's farm, now called Nerinx, where Stephen Badin, first priest ordained in the United States, had centered the missionary activity which earned for him the title " Apostle of Kentucky ".

* Marcus Whitman ( 1802 – 1847 ), missionary physician who in 1843 convinced President Tyler that Oregon, and what is now the state of Washington, should be secured for the United States not Great Britain.

* 689-Pagans kill Irish missionary Kilian near Würzburg in what is now Germany.

* 1539-The Pueblos of what is now the U. S. Southwest are encountered by Spanish Franciscan missionary Marcos de Niza

* 1629-Franciscan missionary Alonzo Benavides founds Santa Clara de Capo on the border of Apache Indian country in what is now New Mexico

* 1673-French trader Louis Jolliet and missionary Jacques Marquette visit what is now the state of Illinois, where the latter establishes a mission for Native Americans

* 1704-French missionary priests arrive to evangelize the Chitimacha living along the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Louisiana

* 1752-Thomas Thompson, first Anglican missionary to Africa, arrives in the Gold Coast ( now Ghana )

* 1881-Home & Foreign Mission Fund ( now known as Interlink ) was established in Glasgow as a missionary service group for brethren missionaries from Scotland

* 1964-In separate incidents, rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis Rine and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor Helen Roseveare ; Carlson is featured on December 4 Time magazine cover ; Hans von Staden of the Dorothea Mission proposes to Patrick Johnstone that he write the book now titled Operation World

According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars ’ Hill ; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars ’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh ; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary.

( a priest, formerly a missionary in Zimbabwe, now retired to Ireland )

It is not developing an awareness of the new kind of missionary strategy that is called for as young churches emerge in Asia and Africa.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

In 1963, with the blessing of St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, a community of Orthodox booksellers and publishers called the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood was formed to publish Orthodox missionary information in English.

The opera introduced a new character called ' the dancing missionary ', who was to appear in several episodes of the comic strip during 1909, and the word whiffenpoof.

It called for the continued development of missionary acculturation.

In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid — subsequently called St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans — proselytizing among the Chatti, felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak, near Fritzlar, as part of his efforts to compel the conversion of the Chatti and the other northern Germanic tribes to Christianity.

The following account of the origin of the name Allegheny was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger: " All this land and region, stretching as far as the creeks and waters that flow into the Alleghene the Delawares called Alligewinenk, which means ' a land into which they came from distant parts '.

The first Buddhist missionaries were called " Dharma Bhanaks " and some see a missionary charge in the symbolism behind the Buddhist wheel, which is said to travel all over the earth bringing Buddhism with it.

Altar calls may also invite those who are already fully members of the Christian community to come forward for specific purposes other than conversion ; for example, to pray for some need, to rededicate their lives after a lapse, or to receive a particular blessing ( such as the Gifts of the Holy Spirit ) or if they are called to certain tasks such as missionary work.

The reverend Billy Graham called him, " the greatest combination pastor, hymn writer, missionary statesman, an evangelist of our time ".

The village is probably named after an early Christian missionary and leader called Celert ( or Cilert ) who settled here early in the 8th century.

Formerly called La Chapelle, the land that was to become Abbeville was purchased by founding father Père Antoine Désiré Mégret ( Père is French for ' Father '), Capuchin missionary, on July 25, 1843 for $ 900.

It has been called " the first missionary hymn of Protestantism.

Kino, who has been called " the cowboy missionary ", had fought against the exploitation of Indians in Mexican silver mines.

* 1781-In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, the British so feared Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his influence among the Lenape ( also called Delaware ) and other Native Americans that they arrested him and his assistant, John Heckewelder, charging them with treason,

However, Cassidy's death has been called the " spark that ignited the Alliance missionary blaze.

On the West African coast they set up Zāwiyas on the shores of the river Niger and even established independent kingdoms such as al-Murābiṭūn or Almoravids. The Al Hakika Mizaan Mizaani Sufi Order deals with heavy internalization and meditations, their spiritual practice is called Al Qudra MizaanStates ) The Sanusi order were also highly involved in missionary work in Africa during the 19th century, spreading both Islam and a high level of literacy into Africa as far south as Lake Chad and beyond by setting up a network of zawiyas where Islam was taught.

Luce, born in China to missionary parents, demonstrated a missionary zeal to make the nation worthy of dominating the world in what he called the " American Century.

Due to his membership in the Utah National Guard and the threat of being called up to serve in the Korean War, Oaks was unable to serve as a missionary for the LDS Church.

In furtherance of his missionary work, Zaya Pandita composed a new alphabet, based on the traditional Mongolian alphabet, called " Clear script " ( todo bichig ) to transcribe the Oirat language as it is pronounced.

Thus, the Commission concluded that the " missionary apostolate ... which has been called ' uniatism ', can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking.