Basel Mission
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The Basel Mission is a missionary society that operates around the world. Members of the society come from many different Protestant denominations.
The mission was founded as the German Missionary Society in 1815. The mission later changed its name to the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, and finally the Basel Mission. The society built a school to train Dutch and British missionaries in 1816. Since this time, the mission has begun missions to Russia and the Gold Coast in 1828, India in 1834, China in 1847, Cameroon in 1886, Borneo in 1921, Nigeria in 1951, and Latin America and the Sudan in 1972 and 1973. Since World War II, the mission has operated abroad via local church congregations. As of November 2002, the major countries or regions of operation were Bolivia, Cameroon, Chile, China (Hong Kong), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Singapore, Sudan, and Taiwan.
A major focus for the Basel Mission is to create employment opportunities for the people of the area where each mission is located. To this end the society teaches printing, tile manufacturing, and weaving, and employs people in these fields.
[edit] References
- Brick, Caroline (November 2002). "Basel Mission Records". Mundus: Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom. Accessed 17 November 2006.
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