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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variants: Church extension; Domestic missions

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Berkshire and Columbia Missionary Society records, 1798-2002.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4696
Abstract The Berkshire and Columbia Missionary Foundation was a missionary society that was officially founded in February 1798. It is considered to be the oldest missionary society in the US, predating the "Haystack Movement" by eight years. The year prior, members met at the Green River in Hillsdale, N.Y. where it was suggested that a group form to send out missionaries both far and near. The locations that they decided upon included parts of Vermont, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New...
Dates: 1798-2002

Boston, Mass. Mount Vernon Congregational Church records, 1841-1969.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0026
Abstract The Mount Vernon Church was founded in 1842 by a group of enthusiastic lay men and women who felt the need of a church in Boston which would lead in the fight against indifference and Unitarianism. They invited the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, a famous evangelist, to be their pastor. He spent thirty two years in charge of the church, from 1842 until his death in 1874. Unfortunately, most of the records of his pastorate perished in a fire in 1879. He was succeeded by Samuel Edward Herrick, pastor...
Dates: 1841-1969

Illinois Home Missionary Society records, 1872-1911.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4997
Abstract The Illinois Home Missionary Society was founded in 1871 at the annual meeting of the Congregational General Association of Illinois and was incorporated in 1873. The Society first existed under the auspices of the American Home Missionary Society and shared its mission to aid the spread of Christianity throughout the states and territories by organizing churches and commissioning ministers for congregations that lacked the financial resources to supply their own. The Society records series...
Dates: 1872-1911

Massachusetts Conference Collection records, 1722-2012.

 Record Group
Identifier: RG5335
Abstract

The Massachusetts Conference, United Church of Christ, began as a series of independent regional ministers’ associations. Originally these groups met to discuss matters of theology. This record group is comprised of collections that had been seprately organized and described within the Congregational Library & Archives and now is an intentional collection that fall under the umbrella of the Massachusetts Conference.

Dates: 1722-2012