May 30, 1792. William Carey inspired the first modern mission movement when he preached a sermon on Isiah 54:2-3 (““Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back…”) He also wrote a missionary manifesto in which he called for the formation of a Baptist Missionary Society. Carey himself went to India as a missionary, where Adoniram and Ann Judson came to him for baptism. In 1818, the mission in India founded Serampore College to train indigenous ministers for the growing church and to provide education in the arts and sciences to anyone regardless of caste or country. ABHS has correspondence between Judson and Carey, as well as other correspondence and articles by Carey. There are many books and articles about him, too.
