Indigenous Church Mission Theory Article Index for
Indigenous
Website Links For
Indigenous
 

Information About

Indigenous Church Mission Theory




Henry Venn ( 1796 - 1873 ) and Rufus Anderson ( 1796 - 1880 ) were contemporaries and the modern pioneers of indigenous church mission theory. They defined an indigenous church as one that is

  • self-supporting

  • self-governing and

  • self-propagating


Roland Allen attempted to reapply these principles to the missions of his day, the early 1900s.