Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada

Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada (commonly identified as the Missionary Education Movement or even, the Movement) was an American publisher of Protestant missionary educational literature. It was a federation of the Home and Foreign Mission Boards to promote missionary education, under the direction of representatives of missionary boards. The Movement edited and published home and foreign mission study textbooks, helps for leaders, and maps, charts, libraries, and other accessory material for use by the boards in all departments of the local church. The Movement also conducted institutions and summer conferences for the training of leaders for the mission boards.^[1] It was incorporated under the laws of the state of New York. The direction of its work was entrusted to a board of managers.^[2] All of the literature was sold at wholesale prices to the boards and retailed by them to individuals in the local church.^[1]

The Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada was incorporated in 1911 as an outgrowth of the Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada ("Young People's Missionary Movement"; established in 1901; incorporated in 1902), whose Protestant missionary educational products only focused on young people. In 1950, the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada became affiliated with the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC). In 1952, the NCC's Joint Commission on Missionary Education became the successor organization of the Missionary Education Movement.