The Church Mission Society, (CMS)  founded in 1799  has grown, over the years, into an international family of agencies. 

The oldest member of the family is CMS Britain, founded in 1799 during the fermenting of the Evangelical Awakening in Europe, by John Venn, William Wilberforce and others. Its first missionaries, German Lutherans, arrived in what is now Sierra Leone in 1804.......

The formation of the Anglican Churches in Africa in late 17^th  Century is credited to the Church Missionary Society. Read more about this on http://www.ackenya.org/ack/history.html 

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Read more about our history on; http://www.cms-uk.org/default.aspx?Tabid=181