Excerpt from History of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Compiled Chiefly From the Published and Unpublished Documents of the Board Mor

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the country's first creator of overseas Christian missions. Founded in 1810 and supported b

In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United St