The aims of the society are to promote the gospel throughout the world. In Christianity, Gospels are a genre of Early Christian literature essentially concerning the message and meaning of Jesus. ...
History
In 1792 William Carey was sent to Serampore near Calcutta, India as a missionary. He was followed by many co-workers. William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the father of modern missions. ... Serampore,India, is a pre-colonial town on the right bank of the Hughli river in the Hughli district of West Bengal. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...
Today
Today the BMS World Mission has over a hundred workers in 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.
The first Baptist church in Boston was established in 1665, and the organization of the first one in Maine, then part of Massachusetts, was completed in 1682.
The Northern Baptists constituted, 17 May, 1907, at Washington, a representative body, called the "Northern Baptist Convention", whose object is "to give expression to the sentiment of its constituency upon matters of denominational importance and of general religious and moral interest." Governor Hughes of New York was elected president of the new organization.
The earliest Baptist church in the Dominion of Canada was organized at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1763, by the Rev. Ebenezer Moulton of New England.
A Baptist church was formed in the Virginia colony in 1715 through the preaching of Robert Norden, and one in North Carolina in 1727 through the ministry of Paul Palmer.
When Baptists in this country formed the first of their three national societies in 1814, many of their leaders recognized that there were numerous social, cultural, economic, and political differences between the businessmen of the North, the farmers of the West, and the planters of the South.
Southern Baptists continued to move toward an associational-type body until 1931 when, by constitutional action, practically all of the remaining society-type characteristics were eliminated from their convention.
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