, co-founder of the Missionary Society The society was founded in 1814 as the
Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the
Triennial Convention (now
American Baptist Churches USA). The first mission of the organization took place in
Burma with the missionaries
Adoniram Judson and
Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. Other missions that followed took place in
Siam in 1833,
India in 1840,
China in 1842,
Japan in 1872 and
Philippines in 1900. In the late 1800s, the society helped fund the
Swedish Baptist conference's new seminary,
Bethel Seminary, in Stockholm. It was renamed
American Baptist Missionary Union in 1845,
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910, and
American Board of International Ministries in 1973. In 2018, it had 1,800 volunteers in 70 countries. ==Prominent American Baptist missionaries==