Baptist Missionary Society
(1792-present)

group and society

Aged 232

Commemorated on 1 plaque

In this house on Octr. 2nd 1792, a meeting was held to form a society for propagating the Gospel among the heathen and £13.2s.6d was contributed for that purpose. Andrew Fuller was elected Secretary and Reynold Hogg Treasurer. William Carey to whose sermon at Nottingham in May of the same year, the movement was due, embarked for India on June 13th 1793. This meeting marks the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society and the inauguration of modern foreign missions. "Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God"

Carey Mission House, Kettering, United Kingdom where it was founded