Other Achievements
Latourette served as president of the American Historical Association, the American Baptist Convention, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Japan International Christian University Foundation.
He was a leader in the ecumenical movement, and he held leadership positions in the American Baptist Missionary Union, the Far Eastern Association, the International Board of the Y.M.C.A., the United Board for Christian Colleges in China and the World Council of Churches.
Throughout his life he remained active in the Yale in China Association.
At the Yale Divinity School, the "Latourette Initiative" is a proactive program to preserve and provide access to the documentation of world Christianity. It provides funding for the microfilming of published and archival resources documenting the history of Christian missions and Christian life.
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