The SPCK never sent a great body of its own missionaries to India; instead it acted as a lifeline from England — money, books, and encouragement — for the Lutheran pietists already on the Tamil coast. For decades this quiet partnership of Danes, Germans, and Englishmen kept the South Indian stations alive. As its own strength faded in the 1820s, it passed its Indian congregations on to a younger Anglican society.
Think of a supply depot far behind the front line: it never charged the field itself, but the men who did were fed and equipped from its stores.
Tradition
Regions
Stations
What they did
- Founded in England in 1698
- Helped fund and supply the Tamil mission stations of the Halle men as part of an informal Halle-Copenhagen-London partnership
- By the 1820s its weakened South Indian work was handed over to the SPG
People
Sources: frykenberg-christianity-india p.180 · frykenberg-christianity-india p.249