Complex sentence: Created as a sending organization funded through the cooperative efforts of SBC churches, they chose China as their first mission field and on September 1,1845 the board appointed their first missionary, Samuel C. Clopton.
Split into simpler sentences: Created as a sending organization funded through the cooperative efforts of SBC churches, they chose China as their first mission field. On September 1,1845 the board appointed their first missionary, Samuel C. Clopton.