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Baptist HistoryLesson 25

• Go ye into all the world
• American Baptist obey the great commission

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Background for missions
To be an evangelical you must believe in
missions Baptists were evangelical
therefore, Baptists believed in missions
Missionary fervor changed the course of American
Baptist history becoming its dominating theme
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Trevor Theresa Johnson
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Three Mission Pioneers
Luther Rice (1783-1836)
Adoniram Judson (1788-1850)
Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826)
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The Baptist Triennial Convention
Institutional precursors to the Triennial
Convention

• Associations themselves

• Boston Female Missionary Society (1800)
  Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society (1802)

• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
  Missions (1812)

Formation of the Triennial Convention
General Missionary Convention of the Baptist
Denomination in the United States for Foreign
Missions (1814)
Luther Rice becomes the full-time agent
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Early leaders of the Triennial Convention
Thomas Baldwin (1753-1825)
William B Johnson (1782-1862)
Richard Furman (1755-1825)
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The Work of the Triennial Convention
Foreign Missions
Home Missions
Isaac McCoy
John Mason Peck
1832 The American Baptist Home Missions Society
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Education
Columbian College (1821)
Newton Seminary (1825)
William Staughton (1770-1829)
Publishing
The Latter-Day Luminary (1822)
American Baptist Missionary Magazine
1825 General Baptist Tract Society
The Baptist Tract
American Baptist Publication and Sunday School
Society (1840)
Colporters
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Competing Methodologies
The Societal Method
The Convention Method

• Convention actually a denomination

• Each ministry represented by different board

• Convention provides funding

• Triennial should have remained a foreign missions
  board

Triennial Convention of 1826
The most important act of the late Convention was
the revision of its constitution, by which its
exertions were limited exclusively to missionary
operations. It is now a simply (sp) body, with
one undivided object, and that object, is the
promulgation of the gospel amongst the
heathen. Proceeding of the Baptist Convention for
Missionary Purposes (1826), p. 7
Francis Wayland (1796-1865)
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Baptist Denominational Expansion in the South,
1826-1845

• They supported Triennial but began to focus on
  their regional needs

• 1830 Baptist State Convention of North Carolina

Thomas Meredith (1795-1850)
Wake Forest College, 1834
The Biblical Interpreter (1830) The Biblical
Recorder (1833)
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