BMS World Mission

==History==
The BMS was formed in 1792 as the ''Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen'' at a meeting in [[Kettering]], [[England]], where twelve [[Particular Baptist]] ministers signed an agreement.<ref>Robert E. Johnson, ''A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches'', Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 99</ref><ref>J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, ''Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010, p. 292</ref> They were; Thomas Blundel, Joshua Burton, John Eayres, [[Andrew Fuller]], Abraham Greenwood, William Heighton, Reynold Hogg, [[Samuel Pearce]], [[John Ryland]], Edward Sherman, [[John Sutcliff]], Joseph Timms.<ref>{{cite book|author=George Smith|title=The Life of William Carey, D.D: Shoemaker and Missionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLa787pY5gMC&pg=PA52|date=30 June 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02918-6|page=52}}</ref> [[William Staughton]], present at the meeting, did not sign since he was not a minister.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Betteridge|title=Deep Roots, Living Branches: A History of Baptists in the English Western Midlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3ZkU7V6N0MC&pg=PA108|date=1 August 2010|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-84876-277-0|page=108}}</ref> The first missionaries, [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] and John Thomas, were sent to [[Bengal]], India in 1793.<ref>Jonathan M. Yeager, ''Early Evangelicalism: A Reader'', OUP USA, USA, 2013, p. 357</ref><ref name=cox>[https://archive.org/details/historybaptistm00coxgoog History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842], [[Francis Augustus Cox]], 1842, accessed April 2009</ref>  They were followed by many co-workers, firstly to India, and subsequently to other countries in Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and South America. BMS opened missions in China in 1860. It began operating in China's Shanxi province in 1877, despite local hostility toward “foreign devils.” In the [[Boxer Rebellion]] of 1900 all its missionaries there were killed, along with all 120 converts .<ref>R. G. Tiedemann, ''Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century'' (2009) p. 125.</ref>  [[Timothy Richard]] is one of the most well-known Baptist missionaries to China.

[[Francis Augustus Cox]] wrote a history of the Baptist Missionary Society from its formation until 1842.<ref name=cox/> [[Brian Stanley (historian)|Brian Stanley]] was commissioned to write a history of the society for its bicentenary (1992).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stanley |first1=Brian |title=The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992 |date=1992 |publisher=T.& T.Clark Ltd |location=London |isbn=0567096149}}</ref>

It is also known as BMS World Mission since 2000.<ref>R. G. Tiedemann, ''Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth'', Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2016, p. 125</ref>