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Lesson Overview

UK Mission Societies

Survey the major British missionary societies that sent workers around the world during the great century of missions.

Key Topics

• • Baptist Missionary Society (1792)

• • London Missionary Society (1795)

• • Church Missionary Society (1799)

• • British and Foreign Bible Society

• • The Student Volunteer Movement

Century of Expansion

The 19th century saw unprecedented missionary expansion from Britain, with thousands of workers sent to every continent under these and other societies.