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	urbana.org - Great Cloud of Witnesses
		On the North American continent the beginnings of overseas interest on the part of the church can be traced directly to student influence, and more precisely, to the impact of one student, Samuel J. Mills, Jr.
		In this age it is popular to criticize foreign missions for failure to be concerned sufficiently with the social and physical needs of people.
		The Haystack Centennial (Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1907), 216.
	www.urbana.org /wtoday.witnesses.cfm?article=61 (1762 words)

	The American Context of China's Christian Colleges: Glossary
		The Board was officially chartered June 20, 1812 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
		Many of the American college graduates who went to teach at the Christian colleges and universities in China were Student Volunteers and their application forms for membership in the SVM are available in the Archives of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions at Yale Divinity Library.
		The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, formerly known as the United Board for Christian Colleges in China, was established to support and coordinate the activities of Protestant colleges and universities in China.
	www.library.yale.edu /div/colleges/glossary.html (487 words)

	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the first American Christian foreign mission agency.
		Under his leadership, the board in 1821 sent the first unmarried female missionaries to the Indians, Ellen Stetson, and the first unmarried female overseas missionary, Betsey Stockton.
		The 'Reflex Influence' of Missions: The Domestic Operations of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1810-1850.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Board_of_Commissioners_for_Foreign_Missions (300 words)

	American Board of Dermatology
		Inter-American Defense Board Medal - The Inter-American Defense Board Medal is an international military award which was created on December 11, 1945, by the 91st session of the Inter-American Defense Board, a Pan-American defense group devoted to the security of Organization of American States.
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the first American Christian foreign mission agency.
		Inter-American Defense Board - The Inter-American Defense Board is an international committee of nationally appointed defense officials, who develop collaborative approaches on common defense and security issues facing the Americas.
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		They had doubtless heard from foreign residents, navigators, and traders, that it was not so in other countries; indeed foreigners were all arrayed against the tabu, and strengthened their testimony by the force and immunity of their own example.
		Ellis's Vindication of the American Mission on the Sandwich Islands, and an Appeal in relation to the Proceedings of Bishop Staley and the Reformed Catholic Mission at Honolulu.
		The executive officers of the Board now believed it to be their duty to secure the missionaries from a renewal of these shameful outrages, by arraigning the authors of the more flagrant of them before the tribunal of public opinion in their native lands.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /award/mymhiwe/du627a6/du627a6.txt (18958 words)

	A Short Course in UCC History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On September 5, 1810, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was born.
		Nevertheless, on June 20, 1812, a charter was granted the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to serve the Congregational churches as their agent for foreign mission, the first foreign missionary society in America.
		The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions had intended to establish missions not only in the Orient and Burma, but also "in the West among the Iroquois." Subsequently, throughout the 1820s and 1830s missions were established among the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee, Osage, Maumee and Iroquois.
	www.ucc.org /aboutus/shortcourse/edumis.html (2255 words)

	Early History of ABCFM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cyrus Kingsbury (1786-1870) began a mission to the Cherokee in 1817, and a mission to the Choctaw in 1818.
		The mission to Palestine aroused wide-spread interest because it was the land of the Bible, and because of millennial expectations connected with Jerusalem and the conversion of the Jews.
		A mission begun at Cape Palmas, in Liberia, in 1834, to the indigenous population, moved to Gabon in 1843, and in 1835 the Board began its Zulu Mission in South Africa.
	www.maxfieldbooks.com /ABCFM.html (13715 words)

	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1884
		Titus Coan proposed that the American Board be asked to invite the children of the United States to take ten cent shares of joint ownership in such a missionary vessel, to be called "Day Star," and he was instructed to write the proposal to Boston.
		This was seven years after the organization of the Hawaiian Society of Foreign Missions, which had sent their own missionaries, in addition to the missionaries sent by the American Board, to the Caroline Islands in 1852, and now were to send them to the Gilbert and Marshall groups also.
		It has "American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" across the top, then a picture of the brig "Morning Star" not quite as finally built, as it has only three square sails on the foremast instead of four, and under it "He spake to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him.
	www.scripophily.net /amboarofcomf2.html (3742 words)

	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Archives: Guide. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wider Church Ministries is a ministry of the United Church of Christ and successor of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).
		By the time of its centenary in 1910, the Board was responsible for 102 mission stations and a missionary staff of 600 in India, Ceylon, West Central Africa (Angola), South Africa and Rhodesia, Asiatic and European Turkey, four different regions in China, Japan, Micronesia, the Philippines, and the "Papal lands" of Mexico, Spain and Austria.
		Missions to American Indians had come and gone; likewise a mission to Hawaii, where the church had achieved independence from the Board.
	oasis.harvard.edu:10080 /oasis/deliver/~hou01467 (4850 words)

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	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Collection 261
		First American foreign mission agency; established in 1810; Congregational in orientation while accepting missionaries of various denominational backgrounds; Bible translation, education, and medical care were consistently emphasized, with evangelism's priority diminishing over time; merged to form United Church [of Christ] Board for World Ministries, 1961.
		Arranged geographically by mission location, Unit 6 consists of correspondence to and from the American and Island missions from 1811-1919.
		The individual guides for Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missionswill be superceded upon completion of the project by a cumulative guide which will provide overall access to the collection.
	www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/GUIDES/261.htm (8753 words)

	The Beginnings of American Foreign Missions - Chapter XXII - Foxe's Book of Martyrs
		In response to this appeal the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed.
		No doubt was entertained of the defeat of the English; the only fear of the king was that the foreigners hearing of the advance of the Burmese troops, would be so alarmed as to flee on board their ships and depart, before there would be time to secure them as slaves.
		All this time the foreigners were entirely ignorant of what was to become of them; and when they arrived at Oung-pen-la, and saw the dilapidated state of the prison, they immediately, all as one, concluded that they were there to be burned, agreeably to the report which had previously been in circulation at Ava.
	bible.christiansunite.com /fox/fox022.shtml (8445 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography - A
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston.
		Newspaper clippings, chiefly from the Missionary Herald, 1870 Jan.-1884 Apr., concerning the Mission to Micronesia (continued on PMB 762) (Reel 24 of a 30 reel set (PMB 738-767A).
		Volume 10: Reports, statistics and other documents, 1890-1899, relating to mission stations and schools on Kusaie, Truk and Ponape, Caroline Islands; the Gilbert and Marshall Islands; reports and abstracts of log of the Morning Star voyages, minutes of meetings (continued on PMB 750).
	www.trussel.com /kir/gilbiba.htm (2399 words)

	Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ: American Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		These two men were sentenced to four years of hard labor, but the American Board stood behind them by taking the case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor in 1832.
		In 1862 American Board mission activity was disrupted by the Sioux uprising in Minnesota.
		In 1964 I was liaison between the Board, the conferences, and the Indian churches, assembled at Aberdeen, South Dakota, a major Consultation on a mission strategy for the remainder of the decade.
	www.ucc.org /aboutus/histories/chap1.htm (5995 words)

	Broward County - Office of Economic Development
		Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Cameron Hume, Minister councilor for Commercial Affairs for Southern Africa, Johnny Brown.
		Commissioner Eggelletion said, "This is why it is so important for Broward County to participate in international missions and promote a cohesive international trade strategy for the County.
		The purpose of this mission was to promote the growth of international business, direct foreign investments and increased trade activity through coordination and partnership with public and private organizations in the region, state, and nation.
	www.broward.org /econdev/edi00303.htm (2472 words)

	MJ's Antique Hangups-Picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		this Board was officially chartered on June 20, 1812 in the Commonwealth of MA.
		Interesting NOTE: One of the founders of the Mission was Jedidiah Huntington who had been appointed by George Washington to serve as Collector of Customs in New London, Connecticut.
		His son was Rev. Joshua Huntington who was pastor of the Old South Church from 1811 to 1819, and was also secretary of the Foreign Mission Society of Boston.
	www.antique-hangups.com /1719.htm (180 words)

	Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - Adoniran Judson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Luther Rice, another American missionary who had sailed on a different ship, had a similar experience and was baptized on Nov. 1, 1812.
		As a result of this challenge and in response to the vigorous efforts of Luther Rice, who returned to the United States to advocate the world missionary cause, the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions was formed in 1814.
		This organization, popularly known as "the Triennial Convention," served as the agency for the support of foreign missionaries of American Baptists, both of the North and of the South, until the organization of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845.
	www.sbhla.org /bio_adoniramjudson.htm (461 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		Historical Sketch of the Hawaiian Mission and the Missions to Micronesia and the Marquesas Islands.
		In 1970, it was decided the transfer the documents to the archives of the Congregational Council for World Mission (formerly London Missionary Society) in London.
		A Copy of a Letter to the Corresponding Secretaries of the American and Hawaiian Boards of Missions, and of the American Bible Society, Honolulu, April 11, 1890.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_miss.htm (3629 words)

	The new divinity and the origins of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1). - Church History - ...
		The new divinity and the origins of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1).
		Author: Kling, David W. The theological influence of the New Divinity in the formation and character of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) is uncontested among scholars of American religious history and missions.
		Since the mid nineteenth century, both partisans of missions and nearly all scholarly observers have attributed the origins of the modern American Protestant missionary spirit to the writings of Jonathan Edwards and his self-appointed heirs, those Congregational ministers who came to be called New Divinity men.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-111934768.html (175 words)

	Find in a Library: Mission schools in India of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, with sketches ...
		Find in a Library: Mission schools in India of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, with sketches of the missions among the North American Indians, the Sandwich Islands, the Armenians of Turkey, and the Nestorians of Persia.
		Mission schools in India of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, with sketches of the missions among the North American Indians, the Sandwich Islands, the Armenians of Turkey, and the Nestorians of Persia.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/54d77743ae639973.html (154 words)

	Andover-Harvard Library - Bible Exhibit - 5. The "Gutenberg Bible" of Modern Syriac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Urmia, Persia: [American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], 1841.
		It was printed at the press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Urmia, Persia, in 1841, under the direction of Edward Breath, a missionary and printer.
		Justin Perkins was, at the time, the head of this early Protestant mission to the Nestorians.
	www.hds.harvard.edu /library/exhibits/online/bible/5.html (344 words)

	Beachcombers, Traders & Castaways in Micronesia
		1914 Letters and Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Mission to Micronesia, 1852-1909.
		Hockin, John P. 1803 A Supplement to the Account of the Pelew Islands; Compiled from the Journals of the Panther and Endeavour, Two Vessels sent by the Honourable East India Company to those Islands in the Year 1790.
		Smith, Thomas J. 1851 Journal on board the Whaleship Milton, 1847-1851.
	www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/bcomber/sources.htm (1907 words)

	bunker_fred_i.html
		Under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the Bunkers immediately sailed to Africa to serve as missionaries.
		The biographical sketch, written by Davis for the Bunker Family Scholarship Fund and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, traces the missionary activities of Fred and Belle Bunker.
		In addition to tracing the evolution of mission work in Africa, this series covers many topics, including descriptions of voyages and expeditions, initial and continuing impressions of Africa and the native peoples, African politics, opposition to missions by local authorities, and management of missions and mission schools.
	www.oberlin.edu /archive/WWW_files/bunker_fred_i.html (1445 words)

	Congregational Library Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Duty of American Congregationalists to Foreign n.d.
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Donations from the Holders of Slaves n.d.
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Harriet Newell n.d.
	www.14beacon.org /missionguide/1862.6.htm (1339 words)

	Libraries & Culture, Bookplate Archive
		The three must be considered together, as each was accepted by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
		Unlike presses under the American Board in Jaffna, Madras, Bombay, and Maulmain, where the imprint stated American Mission Press, we found no such identification used at Singapore.
		The Norths remained until the Singapore American Mission was closed in 1843 (at which time those wishing to travel to China were finding entry possible).
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~landc/bookplates/17_4_ABCFMMission.htm (754 words)

	Haystack06.org - Learn About the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		What has come to be known as the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting led a few years later to the American Board launching the modern mission movement.
		A ten-acre park commemorating the "Birthplace of American Foreign Missions."...
		Flowing from the Haystack Prayer Meeting, the American Board launched the modern mission movement.
	www.haystack06.org /learn.cfm (133 words)

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