While looking up some history of the Domestic Missions Board, I came across this resolution from the 1855 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.
Resolution On Missions (May 1855): RESOLVED, That the Board of Domestic Missions be instructed to occupy Kansas, as a field of missions as soon as practicable.
This immediately brought to mind Bleeding Kansas and the boarder wars over slavery in Kansas Territory. Does anybody know the rest of the story?
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I’m not sure if its connected to this resolution, but Isaac McCoy became a Kansas frontier missionary to the Shawnee as early as 1830. In In fact, the Baptist Mission building where Native Americans were taught and instructed sits at the Kansas Museum of Natural History in Topeka, KS. Be sure to stop and see it next time you’re on your way to going skiing in Colorado!