Learn About the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting

What has come to be known as the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting led a few years later to the American Board launching the modern mission movement.

Learn more about the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting at this website:
http://wso.williams.edu/~dchu/MissionPark/contents.html
Mission Park. Williamstown, MA. A ten-acre park commemorating the "Birthplace of American Foreign Missions." ... Religous Revival. The Haystack Prayer Meeting. America's First Protestant Missionaries.

Dissertation: The Field is the World
This Ph.D. dissertation by Phil Corr examines the emphasis on preaching by the early Congregational missionaries. Flowing from the Haystack Prayer Meeting, the American Board launched the modern mission movement. The dissertation's title is "The Field is the World: Proclaiming, Translating and Serving by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1810-40"

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