Seventh-day Adventist Mission in the Foreign Mission Board Era: 1889-1903

Abstract

Adventist mission expansion. Most Adventists have heard of the 1901 General Conference session and the reorganization of the church for mission. This article looks at the events of the decade proceeding those decisions that led the church to such major adjustments. The research for this article consists mostly from General Conference reports, private letters of the period, and the Missionary Magazine printed during that time. The existence of the Foreign Mission Board (FMB) corresponds with the decade proceeding the re-organization, so I have used its period of existence as the time period for this research. Much work was begun during this decade by the FMB and the church, so this article is limited to four main topics of missions during that era to better sense the mission vision and mission understanding that led up to the mission expansion of the twentieth century.