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10 unusual facts about American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions


Adams College

The school was founded in 1853 by the Reverend David Rood, missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Brainerd Mission

It was established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1817 and named after David Brainerd.

Dyer Ball

He was sent to Singapore by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on 25 May 1838, and remained there until 1841, when he departed for Macao due to his wife's ailing health.

James Redhouse

He was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for his dictionary.

Lawrence M. Judd

Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School.

Lyman House Memorial Museum

arrived in 1832, missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Noah Worcester

Another brother, Samuel (1770–1821), also a clergyman, was corresponding secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1810, and in 1815 engaged in the Unitarian controversy, his immediate opponent being William Ellery Channing.

Printing in Tamil language

This press was sold to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (the American Board Mission or ABM) in Çintadaripet in the mid 19th century.

Samuel Wells Williams

On the June 15, 1833, and still in his twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China.

William B. Washburn

He died in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1887 while attending a session of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), of which he was also a member.


Ahmad Faris Shidyaq

Around 1820, the encounter of Assaad Shidyaq with Jonas King, a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was to lead him to become Protestant.

Ahmednagar College

Ahmednagar College was founded in 1947 by the late Dr. B.P.Hivale with the support and co-operation of the American Marathi Mission, Bombay, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Minnepolis, Minnesota, the late Mr. William H. Danforth of St. Louis, Missouri and a number of other individual friends and groups.

Ashbel Green

He emancipated his family's slave Betsey Stockton in 1817, taught her and recommended her as a missionary to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, making her the first single female overseas missionary.

Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

Justus Doolittle, a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions joined the Rev. S.L. Baldwin of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission in the editorship, but this journal stopped publication in May 1872 after the publication of Volume 4.

Henry Opukahaia

This inspired the founding of the Foreign Mission School in 1816, administered from Boston by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).

Three-Self Patriotic Movement

The three principles of self-governance, self-support (i.e., financial independence from foreigners) and self-propagation (i.e., indigenous missionary work) were first articulated by Henry Venn, General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841–73, and Rufus Anderson, foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

William Cullen Wilcox

They were sent to South Africa as missionaries by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and they arrived in Inanda, north of Durban, in 1881.