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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.