Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
Variant namesOrganized on Sept. 25, 1815 in Basel, Switzerland.
From the description of Records of the Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel, 1818-1978 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702151773
The German Missionary Society (subsequently the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society) was founded in 1815. Now known as the Basel Mission, it is one of the biggest and oldest German speaking Protestant missionary societies and was international and interdenominational from the beginning. The society opened an institution for training missionaries in 1816 and was initially involved in training people from the British and Dutch mission societies which were already engaged in evangelistic work. The largest number of missionaries were supplied to the Church Missionary Society. The Basel Mission Society also began to establish centres of its own, in Western Russia and then the Gold Coast area in West Africa (1828), in India (1834), China (1847), Cameroon (1886), Borneo (1921), Nigeria (1951) and Latin America and the Sudan (1972-73).
Part of its mission activities took the form of the pioneering programmes to provide employment and these industrial activities included the establishment of a printing press, a weaving industry and tile manufacturing. It also undertook medical missionary work.
Since the Second World War, the overseas work of the Basel Mission has been conducted in partnership with local autonomous churches. About 40 members are now working overseas, as pastors in parish work and training, doctors, nurses, mid-wives and medical-technical personnel, social workers, teachers, adult education staff, agriculturalists, construction experts, technicians and administrative staff. The mission has relations with churches and Christian organisations principally in Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Zaire, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. Since 2000, it has been a member of a new association of missions under the banner of "mission 21", created at the Basel Mission House.
Reference: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Suedwestdeutschland /Association of Churches and Missions in South Western Germany (http://www.ems-online.org/). Accessed June 2002.
From the guide to the Records of the Basel Mission, 1928-1972, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
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| associatedWith | American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Basel Mission Society | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Riess, Johann Jacob, 1811-1855. | person |
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Corporate Body
Active 1818
Active 1978
