The Muslims

2^nd Wave "To the Inland Areas!"

1815 a.d - 1974 a.d.

1816

American Bible Society founded.

1817

James Thompson, with the British and Foreign Bible Society, begins distributing Bibles throughout Latin America.

1818

Missionary work begins in Madagascar with the reluctant approval of the king .

1820

Hiram Bingham goes to Hawaii.

1821

African-American Lott Carey, a Baptist missionary, sails with 28 colleagues from Norfolk, VA to Sierra Leone.

1822

African American Betsy Stockton is sent by the American Board of Missions to Hawaii. She thus becomes the first single woman missionary in the history of modern missions.

1823

Liang Fa, first Chinese Protestant evangelist, is ordained by Robert Morrison.

1826

American Bible Society sends first shipment of Bibles to Mexico.

1829

George Müller, a native of Prussia, goes to England as a missionary to the Jews.

1829

Anthony Norris Groves, a dentist, sets off as a missionary to Baghdad accompanied by John Kitto.

1830

William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions.

1830

Baptism of Taufa'ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary.

1832

Teava, former cannibal and pioneer Pacific Islander missionary, is commissioned by John Williams to work on the Samoan island of Manono.

1833

Baptist work in Thailand begins with John Taylor Jones.

1834

Peter Parker MD, associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, first American Medical Missionary to China opens Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton.

1836

George Müller begins his work with orphans in Bristol, England.

1839

Entire Bible is published in language of Tahiti; three French missionaries martyred in Korea; English Protestant missionaries, including John Williams, murdered on Erromango.

1840

David Livingston goes to Africa.

1843

Baptist John Taylor Jones translates New Testament into the Thai language.

1852

Zenana (women) and Medical Missionary Fellowship formed in England to send out single women missionaries.

1854

Henry Venn, secretary of the Church Missionary Society, sets out ideal of self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating churches.

1854

Hudson Taylor arrives in China.

1858

John G. Paton begins work in New Hebrides.

1859

Protestant missionaries arrive in Japan.

1865

James Laidlaw Maxwell plants first viable church in Taiwan.

1865

Hudson Taylor founds China Inland Mission (now called OMF International).

1865

William and Carey Booth found the Salvation Army .

1866

Robert Thomas, the first Protestant martyr in Korea, is beheaded giving a Bible to his executioner.

1866

Spurgeon invents the 'Wordless Book', which is widely used in cross-cultural evangelism.

1895

African Inland Missions Founded.

1900

Approximatly 189 Protestan missionaries are killed in the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1910

CT Studd establishes Heart of Africa Missions (now called WEC International).

1910

Edinburgh begins modern Protestant ecumenical co-operation in mission.

1911

Christian & Missionary Alliance enters Cambodia and Vietnam.

1934

Cam Townsend emphasized linguistic groups.