History of Christian Missions 

Timeline of Christian Missions

This is far from complete...I'm just randomly filling in events as I research...

• c. 48 - Saul begins his first journey.
• c. 51 - Paul begins his second journey.
• c. 54 - Paul begins his third journey.
• c. 60 - Paul journeys to Rome.
• c. 563 - Columba sails from Ireland to Scotland.
• 635 - First Christian missionaries (Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia) arrive in China
• 1289 - Franciscan friars begin mission work in China
• 1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China
• 1582 - Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy
• 1792 - William Carey[?] writes Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society[?] to support him in establishing missionary work in India.
• 1795 - The London Missionary Society[?] is formed.
• 1799 - The Church Missionary Society[?] is formed.
• 1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions[?] is formed.
• 1813 - The Methodists form the Wesleyan Missionary Society[?].
• 1814 - First recorded baptism of a Chinese convert, Cai Gao
• 1840 - David Livingstone is in present-day Malawi (Africa) with the London Missionary Society[?].
• 1865 - The China Inland Mission[?] is founded by James Hudson Taylor[?].

See also: Missionary, Christianity

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