The American Arabian Mission for the Reformed…

August 1889 CE

The American Arabian Mission for the Reformed Church of America is founded on August 1, 1889 by James Cantine, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, and John G. Lansing, at the Cantine homestead in Stone Ridge, New York, while the three are studying at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey.

The mission exists today as the American Mission Hospital of Bahrain.

Cantine, who will be ordained on October 1, 1889 by his classis in the Fair Street Reformed Church, Kingston, New York, will board a ship for Beirut on October 16; Zwemer will join him in 1890 after he completes his last year at the seminary.

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