* The Missionary Faces Isms, by John C. Mattes, pub.

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.

After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 ( chaired by future WCC Honorary President John R. Mott ), church leaders agreed in 1937 to establish a World Council of Churches, based on a merger of the Faith and Order Movement and Life and Work Movement organisations.

Aitutaki was the first of the Cook Islands to accept Christianity, after London Missionary Society ( LMS ) missionary John Williams visited in 1821.

** John Venn ( 1750-1813 ), one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, son of Henry Venn

* 1762-Moravian Missionary John Heckewelder confers with Koquethagacton (" White Eyes ") at the mouth of the Beaver River ( Pennsylvania )

* 1799-The Church Missionary Society ( Church of England ) is formed ; John Vanderkemp, Dutch physician goes to Cape Colony, Africa

* 1830-Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions ; Baptism of Taufa ' ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary ; arrival of John Williams of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, landing in Sapapali ' i on Savai ' i island

* 1901-Nazarene John Diaz goes to Cape Verde Islands ; Maude Cary sails for Morocco ; Oriental Missionary Society founded by Charles Cowman ( his wife is the compiler of popular devotional book Streams in the Desert ); Missionary James Chalmers killed and eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea

* 1908-Gospel Missionary Union opens work in Colombia with Charles Chapman and John Funk ; Pentecostal movement enters Rome and southern Italy as well as Egypt

Studd establishes Heart of Africa Mission, now called WEC International ; Edinburgh Missionary Conference held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, beginning modern Protestant ecumenical cooperation in missions

Acting upon the advice of Dr John Philip, the superintendent of the London Missionary Society's stations in South Africa, a treaty was concluded in 1843 with Moshoeshoe, placing him under British protection.

In 1866 six months after the end of the American Civil War, leaders of the northern American Missionary Association ( AMA ): John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, field secretary ; and Reverend Edward Parmelee Smith founded the Fisk Free Colored School, for education of freedmen.

* John Skerrett ( Augustinian ), Preacher and Missionary, c. 1620-c. 1688

Sir Hercules Robinson sent him to British Bechuanaland in August 1884 as deputy-commissioner to succeed Reverend John Mackenzie, the London Missionary Society's representative at Kuruman, who proclaimed Queen Victoria's authority over the district in May 1883.

It was built by the Church Missionary Society for the Rev John Butler ( New Zealand's first clergyman ) who became the first occupant in 1822, but only for a short while.

The Particular Baptist Missionary Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen ( later the Baptist Missionary Society, and now BMS World Mission ) was organised in 1792, under the leadership of Andrew Fuller ( 1754 – 1815 ), John Sutcliff ( 1752 – 1814 ), and William Carey ( 1761 – 1834 ).

The most extensive were The Spirit of Discovery ( 1804 ), which was mercilessly ridiculed by Byron ; The Missionary of the Andes ( 1815 ); The Grave of the Last Saxon ( 1822 ); and St John in Patmos ( 1833 ).

His son, John Venn ( 1750-1813 ), was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society.

Pastor of St John Missionary Baptist Church, One America's 15 Greatest Black Preachers.

Mitch Davis is a film director noted for his 2001 film The Other Side of Heaven about the trials and adventures of an LDS Missionary, John H. Groberg.

Watkin apprenticed as a printer under his uncle John Gardiner Fuller, an abolitionist and son of Andrew Fuller ( co-founder of the Baptist Missionary Society ), in Bristol.

* Merriman Colbert Harris, Civil War soldier and Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Bishop

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.

The ' Colony ' was very successful for a time and regularly produced a newspaper called the ' Achill Missionary Herald '.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is headed by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the members are the Metropolitan Archbishops, Metropolitan Bishops, Diocesan Bishops, Patriarchal Exarchs, Missionary Bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, Chorbishops and the Patriarchal Vicars for the Church of Alexandria.

The Quorum of Seventy Evangelists is responsible for management of the International Missionary Programs of the church and assists Regions of the church with their individual Domestic Missionary Programs.

This statement, in turn, is clearly reminiscent of Paul's Second Missionary Journey, when Paul travelled from Corinth to Ephesus, before going to Jerusalem for Pentecost ( cf.

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 ).

* A fictional name for Jesus originally used by Homer Simpson in the Simpsons episode " Missionary: Impossible "

However, the use of apostrophes preserves b, d, g, and j for the romanization of Chinese languages containing voiced consonants, such as Shanghainese ( which has a full set of voiced consonants ) and Min Nan ( Hō-ló-oē ) whose century-old Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī ( POJ, often called Missionary Romanization ) is similar to Wade – Giles.

In 1913 the London Missionary Society responded to the appeal of the To Tsai Church to provide a Headmaster for the project, sending Arnold Hughes to Hong Kong, and the college was re-opened as a middle school in 1914 in rented premises, first at 9 Caine Road, later at 45 Caine Road, and finally at 80 Bonham Road ( a former German Rhenish Mission property ).

Frank Short continued in office until 1938 when he had to devote more time to administrative work for the London Missionary Society.

The grandson of jurist and politician Arthur MacArthur, Sr., Arthur would later receive the Medal of Honor for his actions with the Union Army in the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War, and be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

One of the first large-scale missionary endeavours of the British colonial age was the Baptist Missionary Society, founded in 1792 as the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen.

The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission.

Yet Religious Sisters can also do this form of ministry, e. g., the Maryknoll Missionary Sisters have small houses of contemplative Sisters, some in mission locations, who pray for the work of the priests, brothers and other Sisters of their Congregation ; the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master are also cloistered Sisters who pray in support of their sister congregation, the Daughters of St. Paul in their media ministry.

Missionary activity ( James Stewart ) led to the creation of a school for missionaries from which at the beginning of the 20th century the university resulted.

Oscar was one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer for not being able to pay a pledge in a Simpsons season 11 episode, " Missionary: Impossible ".

The crown was a gift from the London Missionary Society to King Pōmare III for his coronation in 1824.

Sun attended To Tsai Church ( 道濟會堂, founded by the London Missionary Society in 1888 ) while he studied Western Medicine in Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ).

A local landmark is Eltham College, a private school founded in 1842 as the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons of Missionaries, which moved to its present site in Mottingham in 1912.

Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature ( 1905-1912 ) from Sheridan, introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges.

Toward the end of the war, schools were established for African American children in northeastern Louisiana, including Tensas and Concordia parishes, some through the sponsorship of the American Missionary Association.

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.

Image: Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church Notasulga Alabama. JPG | The Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School were both used as meeting and testing places for participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study ( also known as the " Tuskegee Experiments ").