 The SDA Church came into the mission scene right when the continental and inland mission mentality overlapped with each other. On the one hand, there was still the colonial, continental, coastland drive of many Protestant mission boards.
On the other hand, there was the prodding to go to the interiors of non-Christian continents. The impact of these competing missional thinking will be observable in later decades than at the beginning of Adventist mission history. Strategic overseas issues and missional thinking were not even in the minds of the early Adventist pioneers. When the Church was organized in 1863, it does not even have enough members and churches in the United States, let alone think of sending missionaries to non-Christian continents and countries. It was to take nearly a decade more before the Seventh-day Adventist Church would send its first denominational missionary overseas. And even when it sent its missionary, it was not to a non-Christian region but to the Christian continent of Europe.
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CategoriesAuthorAbner Dizon is currently serving as the Interfaith Services Director for Muslim and Secular Postmodern at Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD). He is a previous Assistant Professor of World Mission and Islamic Studies at the AIIAS Seminary. |
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