Church Mission Society

The Church Mission Society story began more than 200 years ago with a group of Christians whose hearts were stirred to go to the edges.

The Society was founded in Aldersgate Street in the City of London on 12 April 1799. The group included people like William Wilberforce, John Venn and John Newton. Together, they worked to abolish the slave trade, they fought for the rights of oppressed people at home and they launched out onto dangerous seas to share Jesus with the world.