The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf organization
gptkbp:affiliatedWith gptkb:Congregational_Church
gptkbp:collaboratedWith gptkb:United_Methodist_Church
gptkb:American_Baptist_Foreign_Mission_Society
gptkb:Presbyterian_Church_(USA)
gptkbp:dissolved 1961
gptkbp:focusArea Community Development
Education
Evangelism
Healthcare
gptkbp:founded 1810
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Samuel_Worcester
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:historicalSignificance First_American_foreign_missionary_society
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Social_Gospel_movement
gptkb:Second_Great_Awakening
Transcendentalism
gptkbp:language gptkb:Spanish
gptkb:Burmese
English
Hindi
gptkbp:mission Christian_missionary_work
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Formation_of_the_United_Church_of_Christ
Support for women's education
Involvement in the abolitionist movement
First missionaries sent to India
Formation of the American Board
Response to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Establishment_of_schools_in_Burma
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Luther_Rice
Adoniram Judson
Henry Martyn
The Missionary Herald
The_American_Board's_Annual_Report
The_Foreign_Missionary
gptkbp:partOf Protestant missions movement
gptkbp:region gptkb:Asia
gptkb:Latin_America
Africa
gptkbp:successor gptkb:United_Church_of_Christ
gptkbp:website abc-usa.org