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Baptist Mid-Missions is an
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mission agency based in
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History

Originally named The General Council of Co-operating Baptist Missions of North America, Inc., this mission board was established October 15, 1920. Its first ministry was in
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in the 1920s. During the same decade it established some works among the Afro-Caribbean English speaking community in
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, and in
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, in the south-eastern region of
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. By 2006, Baptist Mid-Missions supported nearly 1000 missionaries in 50 countries and in all six inhabited continents.William H. Brackney, ''Historical Dictionary of the Baptists'', Scarecrow Press, USA, 2009, p. 559 Baptist Mid-Missions' focus is on church planting, which is supported by ministries such as Bible translation/literacy, seminaries, camps, broadcasting, publishing, and disaster relief.


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