BMS World Mission

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BMS World Mission is a Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England around 1792. It was previously known as the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen and then, until 2000, Baptist Missionary Society.

Mission Statement

As a Christian mission organisation, BMS World Mission aims to share life in all its fullness with the world's peoples by:

• enabling them to know Christ

• alleviating suffering and injustice

• improving the quality of life

with people as the primary agent of change - motivating, training, sending and resourcing them.

History

In 1792, William Carey was sent to Serampore near Calcutta, India as a missionary. He was followed by many co-workers, firstly to India, and subsequently to other countries in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. Timothy Richard is perhaps one of the most well-known Baptist missionaries to China.

Today

Today BMS World Mission has over a 320 workers in 40 countries including: Congo, France, Nepal, and Angola.

Few missionaries are sent today who do not have practical skills to enable to positive social and economic changes on a local scale. Obvious examples of such skills are medical workers and teachers.

BMS's main base of operations is in Baptist House, the centre of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, in Didcot, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom.

BMS works in many ways around the world, offering gap year programme to students; known as "Action Teams"

See also

• Protestant missionary societies in China during the 19th Century

External links

• BMS World Mission
• Center for the study of the life and work of William Carey, USAincludes Works by and about William Carey
• Works by William Carey at Project Gutenberg
• Website about the Missionary pioneer William Ward
• Friends of Serampore UK support group for College founded by early Baptist missionaries

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