Dr. Daniel Nessim says that Jewish outreach missions began in 1819 and were organized primarily by Christians to convert Jews. However, there were a number of notable Jewish believers who assumed leadership roles, and with those Jewish leaders came more communal, Jewish activities.
Founded originally in 1809 as an interdenominational society by a Jewish believer, The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews (LSPCJ) was the oldest and the largest Christian missionary enterprise in nineteenth-century British “Jewish missions.” In 1847, LSPCJ established a Toronto auxiliary, which had lapsed until prominent Jewish believer Isaac Hellmuth, who founded Huron College and the University of Western Ontario, helped re-establish it in 1863.
