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Baptist Women and Baptist Young Women were included in a new organization called Women on Mission. At this time, Royal Service magazine was replaced by Missions Mosaic. Three new mission organizations were introduced in 1995 as well: Adults on Mission, Youth on Mission, and Children in Action.
Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton (December 9, 1832 – October 8, 1909) was an American Methodist Episcopal Church missionary.She was the first Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church representative to Korea [1] and the founder of the Ewha Girls School (Pear Blossom Academy) under Emperor Gojong.
Apostolic Women's Ministries (AWM) is a Canadian ministry under the Apostolic Church of Pentecost (ACOP) designed to help coordinate opportunities for ACOP women to work together to support each other and ACOP's missionaries.
They also felt that they could work more effectually in connection with their several denominational boards of missions. [3] Some notable women's missionary societies included: American Zenana Mission - 1864 [3] Christian Woman's Board of Missions - 1874; Council of Women for Home Missions - 1908 [5] Female Missionary Society - c. 1818 [6]
The zenana missions were made up of female missionaries who could visit Indian women in their own homes with the aim of providing them with medical help and education. The purdah system made it impossible for many Indian women, especially high status women, to access health care , and many were dying and suffering needlessly.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (48 P) Pages in category "Female Christian missionaries" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total.
Sisters belonging to Missionaries of Charity in their attire of traditional white sari with blue border.. The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women [3] established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Willie Harding McGavock. In April 1874, largely through the efforts of Mrs. Kelley, some of the Methodist women of Nashville, formed themselves into an organization known as a "Bible Mission," with two distinct objects: one to furnish aid and Bible instruction to the poor and destitute of the city, the other to collect and contribute pecuniary aid to foreign missionary fields. [6]