Genealogy Projects tagged with Church Missionary Society CMS on the Geni Family Tree

New Zealand Missionaries

Church Missionary Society The Church Missionary Society (CMS) began in London in 1799, when a group of Anglicans decided that the Christian gospel should be preached around the world. At that time there were few Europeans living in New Zealand. Most were traders or escaped convicts. First missionaries In December 1814 the first missionaries arrived in the Bay of Islands, escorted by the c...