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The Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society (WBHMS) was founded in Chicago in 1877 to "promote the Christianization of homes by means of missions and mission schools, with special reference to the freed people, the Indians and immigrant heathen populations." In five years there were 22 workers in seven southern states.
Started by AHMS missionary Norman McLeod. First Presbyterian Church (Chicago) - this was the first (and therefore oldest) religious society in Chicago. [15] The first public school in Chicago was organized in the meeting house of the First Presbyterian Church, and Eliza Chappel was the first teacher in this school. The church was established by ...
Other "apostolic faith assemblies" (Parham disliked designating local Christian bodies as "churches") were begun in the Galena area. [13] Parham's movement soon spread throughout Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. During 1906 Parham began working on a number of fronts. In Houston, Parham's ministry included conducting a Bible school around 1906.
Albert Benjamin Simpson, (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism.
1797 – Netherlands Missionary Society formed; [202] [204] The Duff, carrying 36 lay and pastoral missionaries, sails to three islands of the South Pacific; [205] The first Christian missionary (from the London Missionary Society) visits Hiva on the Pacific island of Tahuata; he is not well received.
Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China; Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair; Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China; Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign ...
Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house ...
Anne Luther Bagby (March 20, 1859- December 22, 1942) was an American Baptist missionary from Texas. She was the first woman from the Texas Baptists to become a foreign missionary. [1] She also served as a leader of the Texas Baptists when she was not doing missionary work in Brazil. [2] Overall, Bagby worked as a missionary for sixty-one years ...