150 Year Timeline

1871

Discussions about the possibility of a new mission magazine

1872

Anthony Norris Groves

1872

Read Anthony Norris Groves' story

1873

Teodorico Rossetti, Italian evangelist

Italy

Read Teodorico Rossetti's story

1880

1881

Home and Foreign Mission Fund is launched in Scotland

1881

1885

The Missionary Echo changes to Echoes of Service

1898

1899

Boxer Rebellion begins in China

1900

1905

Fire destroys Echoes archive material, including magazines, maps and pictures

1910

1913

Publishes first prayer list of mission partners

1914

1936

Spanish Civil War

1938

1939

World War II

1941

Geoffrey Bull

Tibet

Read Geoffrey Bull's story

1951

1959

Echoes provides visual aids for loan, such as recorded talks,...

1960

Walter and Elizabeth Alexander

Portugal and Brazil

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1967

Mission partners start to be expelled from Morocco and religion...

1972

1974

Communist coup in Ethiopia

1982

1984

Echoes sets up Overseas Disaster Fund

1989

Rupert and Janet Abbott

Pakistan and Thailand

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1994

2002

North Korea identified as most dangerous country for Christians to...

2006

2010

Arab Spring uprisings

2018

2020

Coronavirus pandemic

2022

The timeline below outlines the work Echoes International has been involved in between 1871 and 2022. You can read stories from mission partners and see key world events.