Baptist World Alliance relief efforts in Post-Second-World-War Europe: the Baptist World Alliance, the official global fellowship of Baptists, was created at the Baptist World Congress in London in 1905.

From: Baptist History and Heritage | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Pierard, Richard V. | Copyright information

Among its many activities is the promotion of cooperative effort in the relief of suffering people, which now is the function of the division of Baptist World Aid. This venture into relief had its beginning in the aftermath of World War I. After unsuccessful attempts by U.S. Northern and Southern Baptist bodies to reestablish relief connections on the continent, the Baptist World Alliance decided to commission the Rev. J. H. Rushbrooke, a London pastor who was fluent in German and ...

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