or devoted to missions

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• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions — The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the first American Christian foreign mission agency. It was proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812. In 1961 it merged with… …   Wikipedia