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International Ministries
Founded	1814; 211 years ago
Founders	Walter Gowans; Rowland Bingham; Thomas Kent
Type	Non-profit
Headquarters	King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States
Location	70 countries;
Fields	Christian Missionary Outreach
Affiliations	American Baptist Churches USA
Website	internationalministries.org

International Ministries is an international Baptist Christian missionary society. It is a constituent board affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. The headquarters is in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States.

History

Adoniram Judson, co-founder of the Missionary Society

The society was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA).^[1] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814.^[2] Other missions that followed took place in Siam in 1833, India in 1840, China in 1842, Japan in 1872 and Philippines in 1900.^[3] In the late 1800s, the society helped fund the Swedish Baptist conference's new seminary, Bethel Seminary, in Stockholm.^[4]

It was renamed American Baptist Missionary Union in 1845, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910, and American Board of International Ministries in 1973.^[5] In 2018, it had 1,800 volunteers in 70 countries.^[6]

Prominent American Baptist missionaries

William Thomas Amiger, Liberia, 1919–1923^[7]
George Boardman, Burma, 1801–1831
Clinton Caldwell Boone, 1901–1910
Lott Cary, Liberia, 1821–1828
David Crockett Graham, Sichuan, China, 1911–1948
Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828-1902), Burma 1851–1902
John Taylor Jones, Thailand 1832–1851
Adoniram Judson, Burma, 1813–1850
Louis F. Knoll, India
William M. Mitchell, Canada, fl. 1859
Issachar Jacox Roberts, Macao and China, ca. 1837–1862
Charlotte White, Digah, India, 1816–1826

References

^ George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2016, p. 63
^ Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists: Traced by Their Vital Principles and Practices, The Baptist Standard Bearer, USA, 2001, p. 814
^ David Shavit, The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, USA, 1990, p. 7
^ Larsson, Mats (2007). De "riktigt kristna", deras "wänner" och "motståndare" : en lokal- och frikyrkohistorisk studie av Askers baptistförsamlings identitet och mentalitet, 1858-1887 (in Swedish). LiU-Tryck). Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. ISBN 978-91-85831-24-1. OCLC 277196809.
^ Daniel G. Reid, Robert D. Linder, Bruce Shelley, Harry S. Stout, Craig A. Noll, Concise Dictionary of Christianity in America, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2002, p. 14
^ ABIM, HISTORY, internationalministries.org, USA, retrieved November 30, 2018
^ "Liberian Missionary". The Morning Union. 1919-10-02. Retrieved 2024-11-08 – via Newspapers.com.

Primary sources

The Baptist missionary magazine Multiple issues online free from 19th century
American Presbyterian Mission (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.