What does BMS stand for?

Dr John Goddard Jones had joined the Baptist Missionary Society and helped to treat lepers, malaria and TB sufferers in Africa in World War II.

3 The Baptist Missionary Society Although Carey pleaded for consideration after the sermon had a profound effect on his hearers, action was not immediate.

She entered Spelman Seminary in 1882 and graduated in 1888, and under the auspices of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society, she too was assigned to the Congo after additional training as a missionary.

Southern Baptists were able to create this joint funding effort because the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), auxiliary to the SBC, had already developed a centralized national organization and could effectively organize church members on the local level to support the new CR Early Missions Efforts Baptists' early funding efforts began with the organization of the Baptist Missionary Society in England in 1792, which supported William Carey.

Fist, William Carey wrote his Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen, (2) which would result in the formation of the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen (later known as the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS).

21) The Mission and Reform Efforts of Women Missionaries The formation of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society in Western Ontario and the deputation of Mary Jane Frith to Andhra sharpened the focus on women's work and took the sense of solidarity beyond caste boundaries.

One Baptist body around which most British Baptists united was the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS).

From Sea to Sea: A Study Book of Home Missions for Mission Circles, Women's Associations, Ladies' Aids and Canadian Girls in Training, Senior Mission Bands; A Story of Canadian Missions across Canada in Early Days, in the Present and with an Outlook towards the Future (Ontario: The Publications Committee of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society of Ontario West, 1940), 184.