FIRST-PERSON: Remember the mission
Letters arrived in New England in 1813 with troubling news for two groups of churches. For Congregationalists, their new missionaries had resigned from their mission board, claiming now to be Baptists. On the other hand, Baptist churches in the United States were thrilled to hear Adoniram and Sarah Judson had joined their ranks, but there was no denomination, no mission board, no nothing, to support them.