International Ministries (organization)

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


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

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

Prominent American Baptist missionaries

 * 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