Sentences with phrase «missionary societies»

However, Pentecostals did not abandon the individualism they had inherited from missionary societies.

Luther Rice toured the South urging the formation of Baptist missionary societies to support Judson and others.

Both founded missionary societies and sent many men overseas.

(1) places on record its conviction that the protection of missionaries should only be by such methods as will promote good will in personal and official relations and (2) urges on all missionary societies that they make no claim on their governments for the armed defense of their missionaries and their property.

While European churches generally depended on semiautonomous missionary societies for the missionary work abroad, most American churches accepted the missionary obligation as a task of the total church body.

In the administration of missionary work, the missionary societies or mission boards had authorised the missionaries in each of their respective areas to form themselves as a mission or a mission council.

As discussed in the previous chapter, in reviewing the situation in the mission field, this Commission noted the fear of missionaries, and missionary societies, about the new developments in the mission field and the possibility of churches in the mission field breaking away from western ecclesiastical traditions and control.

The missionary historians treated the history of the church in Asia or Africa as part of the history of missionary societies and of western missionary expansion.

It was these new developments in the mission field that raised the question of the relationship between the missionary societies and the churches in the mission field and, consequently, the theological issue of the relationship between church and mission.

As D.T. Niles once remarked, the churches in Asia or Africa, as far as the western missionary societies were concerned, were only dots on the missionary map.

The conference in Edinburgh was one organised for Protestant missionary societies working among non-Christian peoples.

There was nothing which resembled the closely integrated monastic orders which were so prominent in the later propagation of the faith, or the countless missionary societies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Missionary societies were formed locally and nationally to facilitate the church's ministry.

In this «Outline» Anderson asked his basic mission question, «How shall missionary societies establish a living, out - working Christianity in the dark places of the earth?»

In this context, the Congress called everyone to encourage and assist in the organization of evangelical fellowships among churches and missionary societies at national, regional and international levels.

When the modern missionary movement arose there was the tension between the missionary movement and the ecclesiastical establishment that resulted in a large number of missionary societies being organized outside official church bodies.

The Conference Commission on Co-operation and Unity was more concerned with the co-operation of missionary societies in the mission field and in the «home base».

First, it is a serious problem that there are competition and conflicts among missionaries, denominations, and missionary societies.

The early tract and missionary societies enlarged their work of rescuing human wrecks of economic competition, and they began to pay more attention to the immigrant through language classes and employment agencies.

It has been making this contribution over the years as missionaries have gone to remote places to serve «the last, the least, the lost» and as education in world - mindedness has been given in many missionary societies across the land.

We will concentrate on the work of British missionary societies.

He was not afraid to say that «the hundred missionary societies in China today are as suicidal for Christianity as the civil divisions are to the national peace and prosperity.»

(12) «Unless here in America literally thousands of new frontiers missionary societies are founded, in thousands of local churches in most churches (denominations), «the Unreached Peoples» will not be reached.»

Originally the Federal Government paid for missionary societies to educate the Indian children, but this questionable practice was abandoned during the 1880's.

First, through the creation of women's missionary societies the women were able to find one more area through which they could work.

In order to send ministers to and to provide Churches for such people they began to found state missionary societies in the late 1790's.

Under his dynamic leadership national councils embracing missionary societies and native churches alike were established.

So there are many orgs like World Vision, and missionary societies dotted around the place — is this because the local church is not doing it's job and therefore there is a gap that these orgs fill?

He also serves on the investment advisory committee for the Missionary Society of St. Columban and is an external advisor for the MBA Investment Fund at The University of Texas at Austin.

Overseas and British mission to merge The Methodist Missionary Society (MMS) is to be «wound up with... More

Mr. Bachelder, who has worked in banking, in 1987 was minister of Worcester City Missionary Society (United Church of Christ) in Worcester, Massachusetts.

They were the primary group in the American Missionary Society, which started such famous Negro schools as Hampton Institute, Fisk University, Tougaloo, and Atlanta University in Georgia.

Overseas and British mission to merge The Methodist Missionary Society (MMS) is to be «wound up with immediate effect» following a resolution at the Methodist Conference in July.

The decision brings to an end over 80 years of formal missionary society work, though the Methodist Church will continue to engage in mission overseas...

Within such an understanding of the beginnings of the Western missionary movement, it is possible to detect the revolutionary impulse of the founding vision of the London Missionary Society: «To send the glorious gospel of the blessed God to the heathen.»

3 See for details, «Hill Araanns,» Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society, 1849 - 50, p. clv; Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society, 1851 - 52, p. 145 (hereinafter, Procedings).

Others in England, especially those in the Church Missionary Society, saw Africa as a place for their special concern.

It was the old London Missionary Society transformed to tackle the tasks of World Mission today.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

Sitting beside President A. McLean of the Disciples» Foreign Missionary Society is Missions - Inspector Pastor.1.

Chandra Devanesen's prayer «O Thou, who hast given me eyes», taken from John Carden's Morning, Noon and Night (The Church Missionary Society)

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

It was in 1792, when the French Revolution was upsetting the monarchy in France and threatening the Roman Catholic Church, that William Carey stimulated the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society in England.

The role of the missionary society and the meaning of missionary vocation will be re-thought.

18 The report from the «Thirty - Second Report of the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South - Western India,» is by Mr. Daimelhuber, a missionary, printed in the Report of the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society for 1871 (Mangalore: Stolz & Reuther, Basel Mission Press, 1872), pp. 11 - 12.

Copyright @ 1972 by The Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in the State of New York.

According to Henry Venn, Secretary of the Church Missionary Society in the nineteenth century, the missionary aim should be to help the Christian communities in the mission field to grow into self - supporting, self - propagating and self - governing churches.

There was also considerable missionary work amongst the African population, especially by the London Missionary Society.

Max Warren of the Church Missionary Society, speaking at the Willingen Conference, made the following comparison with the previous meeting of the IMC at Whitby.

A particular area of Christian growth was Uganda, which became a British protectorate in 1894, where Anglicans sent by the Church Missionary Society and the Roman Catholic Mill Hill Fathers both did much work.