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Article: The American Civil War of 1861-1865: a major challenge to the survival of early Baptists ventures in Nigeria.(Essay)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- March 22, 2008
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The foundation for Baptist work in Nigeria was laid in 1850 and owed its origin to the efforts made by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
Organized in 1845 when the question of slavery became a dividing wall, the SBC's principal aim was to promote foreign and domestic missions. Immediately, the SBC created the Foreign Mission Board (FMB), now known as the International Mission Board, to plan a missions program in foreign countries. Southern Baptists took their first steps beyond the American shores to China in 1846. Less than five years after its establishment, the FMB sent its first missionary to Nigeria, in West Africa, with Thomas Jefferson Bowen of ...