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The Great Commission
Mt 28:19 Mk13:10 Acts13:1-4 Rom10:13-15
European Colonial Expansion
A. Roman Catholic Nations
1. Italian contacts with the Mongolia Empire(13th)
2. Portuguese Interests in S.E. Asia(16th) Gor(Malacca 1511)
3. Spanish Interests in S. America and Asia
4. French in lndo-China(by 1885)
B. Protestant Nations
1. Dutch interest in S.E. Asia (17-18th)
2 British interest in Asia(17-20th)
History of Christian Missions
A. The Nestorian Missions
1. The Nestorian Tablet
2 Alopen from Syria to Cathay(635)
B. The Rome Catholic Missions' Domination(1500-1750):
1. Missionary friars to the Mongolian Khans(13th) John of Plano Carpini, John of Monte Cmvino, Mattee
2 Jesuit Missionaries: Francis Xavier
3. Missionary orders today: Jesuits, Friars, Nuns
C. The Protestant Missions(18th)
1. Pioneer Missionaries - William Carey (1761-1834)-"father of modern mission" Bapt. Miss. Soc(1792) Robert Morrison(1782-1834) in China(1809) James Hudson Taylor-OM (1865) AdoniramJudson(1~1850) in Burma David livingston(181341-73) in Africa
2. Missionary Societies - 1784: six protestant missionary societies with 200missionaries.
London Missionary Society(1795) Church
Mission Society(1799) General Methodist Society(1796)
3. Rapid Growth of Missions during the Colonial Era(1850-)
The Growth of Foreign Missions
A. External Factors
1. Political- Rex Romana, Pax Britanica, Pax American, rolonial expansion;
2 EconomicalIndustrial Revolution, transport, communication, huger-poverty;
3. Social- Breaking down of primitive cultures, school, hospitals, polygamy;
4. Intellectual - scientific and technological
B. Internal Factors
International Missionary Organizations
A. Ecumenical
1. World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh(1910)
2. International Missionary Council(1921) and IMC Conferences 3. CWME in Mexiro City(1963)
B. Faith Missions
1. Evangelical Foreign Missionary Association(EFMA)
2. Interdenominational Foreign Missionary Association(IFMA)
Raise of Third World Missions(1960's-)
1975: 3411 Missionaries in 86 countries with 19 agencies.
A. Asia:
1. Number of Asian Missionaries:
•1980: 10,200 missionaries
•1990: 20,933
•2000 : 67,000
•Annual Growth rate of Asian missionaries: 15.4%
•Korea : 3,500 missionaries in 47 countries(259 with work with Indians cross culturally. Indian Evangelical Mission : 280 missionaries.
2 Missions Agencies : 1989; 322+ mission agencies
•Asia Missions Association(AMA) from Aug. 1973(by Dr. David Cho): six national missions associations:
(1) Korean Foreign Mission Association (KFMA)
(2) Indian Mission Association (IMA)
(3) Philippines Mission Association (PMA)
(4) Indonesia Fellowship of Missions (IFM)
(5) Japanese Overseas Mission Association (JOMA)
(6) Hong Kong Association of Christian Missions (HKACM)
3. Missions Conferences:
•AMA's 4th Triennial Convention in Pasadena, CA. Oct. 6-12,1986.
•"Mutual Fund for Third World Mission Advance" established.
•"Joint Commission of World Mission" established.
•First Pan-Malaysia Christian Missions Conference, Feb. 1m First Asia Student Missionary Convention, Baguio, Philippines Dec. 26-31,1973.
•4th Taiwan Christian Students Missions Conference, July 4-9, 1988.
•Asia Missions Congress, Aug. 27-31, 1990
•Chong Hyun church, Seoul, Korea Sponsor: Evangelical
•Fellowship of Asia(2000 delegates)
B. Italian America:
•COMIBAN '87(Nov.) drew over 3,200 participants in Sao Pauolo, Brazil to Mobilize Latin American Churches for Missions.
•13,000 missionaries(1980) in South and Central America.
C. Africa:
•1975: 917 missionaries with 18 agencies.
•1988: Church Growth: 230 million(44%) of the Africans claim to be Christians(1987), and by 2000 AD 400million(48%) will be Christianized.
•2,000 Africans accept Christ every day.
•1990: 17,000 African missionaries
•Nigeria: 3,(XX) missionaries plus 30 mission agencies
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