books.google.com - Henry Venn, secretary of the London-based Church Missionary Society from 1840 to 1872, coined the term euthanasia of a mission to describe the vital process whereby a foreign mission becomes progressively indigenous and independent. His vision of church autonomy was first implemented in Sierra Leone,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Euthanasia_of_a_mission.html?id=YmJnaZYdClAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEuthanasia of a mission