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Rufus Anderson

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Rufus Anderson (August 17, 1796 – May 23, 1880) was an American minister who spent several decades organizing overseas missions. [1]

26 relations: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Ceylon Mission, American Civil War, Andover Theological Seminary, Batticotta Seminary, Boston, Bowdoin College, Christian ministry, Christian mission, Church (congregation), Congregational church, Eliot Congregational Church, Forest Hills Cemetery, Hawaiian Islands, Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society), India, Indigenous church mission theory, List of missionaries to Hawaii, Maine, Minister (Christianity), North Yarmouth, Maine, Panama Canal, Pastor, Religious conversion, Sri Lanka, United States.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations.

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American Ceylon Mission

The American Ceylon Mission (ACM) to Jaffna, Sri Lanka started with the arrival in 1813 of missionaries sponsored by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Andover Theological Seminary

Andover Theological Seminary is located in Newton, Massachusetts and is the oldest graduate school of theology in the United States.

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Batticotta Seminary

The Batticotta Seminary was an educational institute founded by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)'s American Ceylon Mission at Vaddukodai, in the Jaffna Peninsula north Sri Lanka in 1823.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.

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Christian ministry

In Christianity, ministry is an activity carried out by Christians to express or spread their faith, the prototype being the Great Commission.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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Church (congregation)

A church is a Christian religious organization or congregation or community that meets in a particular location.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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Eliot Congregational Church

Eliot Congregational Church ("Walnut Avenue Congregational Church" or "Eliot United Church of Christ") is an historic Congregational church at 56 Dale Street, at the corner of 118-120 Walnut Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden located in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiokinai in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society)

Henry Venn (10 February 1796 – 13 January 1873) was an Anglican clergyman who is recognised as one of the foremost Protestant missions strategists of the nineteenth century.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous church mission theory

Indigenous churches are churches suited to local culture and led by local Christians.

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List of missionaries to Hawaii

This is a list of missionaries to Hawaii.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorized by a church, or other religious organization, to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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North Yarmouth, Maine

North Yarmouth, officially the Town of North Yarmouth, is a town in Cumberland County, Maine.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

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Pastor

A pastor is an ordained leader of a Christian congregation.

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Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Anderson

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