Among the LCMS's other auxiliary organizations are the Lutheran Laymen's League ( now known as Lutheran Hour Ministries ), which conducts outreach ministries including The Lutheran Hour radio program ; and the Lutheran Women's Missionary League.

in May ), called " Run For The Son ," which raises money for home missions in the U. S. ( CMA outreach ), and supports three other international evangelism ministries-The Jesus Film Project, Open Doors, and Missionary Ventures ( see link below ).

From the establishment of the Missionary Volunteer Society in the early days of Claremont Union College to the present, students have gained valuable experience in leadership as they have organised and run their own outreach activities to those in the community.

* Missionary outreach in Australia and overseas

In the U. K., Missionary Aviation Fellowship was initially organized as a wing of the Mildmay Movement ( a Christian outreach organization ), though it later became an independent organization.

) After Jesus People Europe broke up, Palosaari and others formed the Highway Missionary Society a year later, based in British Columbia, Canada, with Servant the primary outreach of the Society, based on the West Coast of North America.

An important operation in soliciting industrial locations involves what we term `` Missionary calls '' by one of this Division's industrial promotion specialists.

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

One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.

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

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 ).

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

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.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

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.

* November 25 – American Civil War – Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

Depiction of a fetish in South Africa by the London Missionary Society, circa 1900.

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.

During the Battle of Chattanooga in November, under Grant's overall command, Sherman quickly took his assigned target of Billy Goat Hill at the north end of Missionary Ridge, only to discover that it was not part of the ridge at all, but rather a detached spur separated from the main spine by a rock-strewn ravine.

The first institution with the name of Ying Wa College was founded in Malacca in 1818 by Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, the first Protestant missionary to China.

GWC seeks to maintain friendly ties with the Bible Institute of South Africa situated in Kalk Bay in Cape Town, and two sister CESA colleges: the Johannesburg Bible College and the Kwazulu-Natal Missionary and Bible College ( KMBC ) formerly Trinity Academy.

Sales continued to be strong in the UK, but were somewhat slower in the U. S., though " Missionary Man " reached number 14 on the U. S. Hot 100 chart and went all the way to No. 1 on the US Album Oriented Rock chart ( AOR ).

Ibrahim Zubairi writes in his book Rouzatul Auliyae Beejapore ( compiled during 1895 ) which describes that more than 30 tombs or Dargahs are there in Bijapur with more than 300 Khankahs i. e., Islamic Missionary Schools with notable number of disciples of different lineage like Hasani Sadat, Husaini Sadat, Razavi Sadat, Kazmi Sadat, Shaikh Siddiquis, Farooquis, Usmanis, Alvis, Abbasees and other and spiritual chains like Quadari, Chishti, Suharwardi, Naqshbandi, Shuttari, Haidari etc.

With the coming of missionaries of the Baptist Missionary Society from Great Britain, the Baptist faith in the Company Villages was much affected, but despite the ensuing schism between the so-called London Baptists and the rest, the Baptist congregations of the Company Villages, even including those with Gullah origins, retained so little visible African influence in their practice that John Hackshaw was able to give a different view of the Baptists in the north of the country:

" Missionary Schumann continues, " On December 23, 1893 a different chief had also stolen cattle but is said ... in the process of returning them.

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.

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

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.

The Oenpelli Mission began in 1925, when the Church of England Missionary Society accepted an offer from the Northern Territory Administration to take over the area, which had been operated as a dairy farm.

Clergyman A. T. Powers lived in Hot Springs from 1943 – 1948, when he was the pastor of the Oaklawn Missionary Baptist Church.

The Missionary Church, built in Elbing in 1910, was used until the 1960s when the congregation moved to nearby Newton, Kansas.

; However, the possibility of such an international gathering of bishops had first emerged during the Jubilee of the Church Missionary Society in 1851 when a number of US bishops were present in London.

Martyn wanted to offer his services to the Church Missionary Society, when a financial disaster in Cornwall deprived him and his unmarried sister of the income their father had left for them.

The Henry Martyn Trust based in Cambridge, England can trace its history back to 1897, at a time of great enthusiasm in Cambridge for overseas missions, when an appeal was launched for a ' Proposed Missionary Library for Cambridge University ', to be housed in the Henry Martyn Hall, erected ten years previously.

Catholic missionaries, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who passed by in those years set up a small mission on one of Savage Islands, but never had great success and withdrew, when the activities of Hudson's Bay Company ended by mid-1940s and the Inuit had migrated into communities.

At the Battle of Chattanooga in November 1863, Hardee's Corps of the Army of Tennessee was defeated when Union troops under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas assaulted their seemingly impregnable defensive lines on Missionary Ridge.

Westerners began to settle on the island in 1872 when the London Missionary Society founded a missionary school there.

LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School traces its history to 1862 when the American Missionary Association ( AMA ) sent Lucinda Humphrey to open an elementary school at Camp Shiloh for freedmen and escaped slaves.

Owen College traces its history as a junior college to 1947, when the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention bought property on Vance Avenue.

Portuguese activity apart, Christianity became a force in the early 1820s when a Calvinist group, the Netherlands Missionary Society, turned from an almost exclusive interest in Maluku to the Minahasa area.

Medhurst was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at Penang, then at Batavia-and finally, when peace was concluded with China in 1842, at Shanghai where he founded the London Missionary Society Press ( 墨海書館 ) together with William Muirhead, Joseph Edkins, and William Charles Milne.

The seeds of these institutions were planted in 1923 when a missionary by the name of Ramzanali Sabzali ( d. 1938 ) was sent to these various communities by Aga Khan III .< ref > The diary of Missionary Sabzali, posthumously endowed with the title of pir by Imam Sultan Mahomed Shah, is extant.

Due to Pukapuka's isolation, few vessels visited before 1857 when the London Missionary Society landed teachers from Aitutaki and Rarotonga.

Centered in central and eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, African-American Christian congregations formed a convention of their own in the 1890s, a body that existed until 1950, well after the Congregational Christian merger, when it joined the Convention of the South, heretofore composed of Congregational churches founded by the American Missionary Association.

The CMS College ( CMS College Kottayam ) is the first college in Kottayam, Kerala, India. It is the first college in Kerala It was started by the Church Missionary Society, England, in 1817 when no institution existed in the then-Travancore state to teach English.

Maclean recounts how Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly were executed there in the context of The Great Game, and how Joseph Wolff, known as the Eccentric Missionary, barely escaped their fate when he came looking for them in 1845.

A revival of mathematics in China began in the late nineteenth century, when Joseph Edkins, Alexander Wylie and Li Shanlan translated works on astronomy, algebra and differential-integral calculus into Chinese, published by London Missionary Press in Shanghai.

The school dates back to 1842 when it was founded as the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries.

Although the World Missionary Conference convened as a discursive enterprise, a vote was carried to establish a Continuation Committee when Commission VIII's report was presented.