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Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) is an auxiliary of the Southern Baptist Convention that was founded in 1888. It is the largest Protestant missions organization for women in the world. The WMU sees its work as ‘’making disciples of Jesus who live in mission’’; this is done by providing resources, engaging with ministries and offering ...
Baptist women were among the leaders in the Woman's Union Missionary Movement of 1860. In the spring of that year, Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason, wife of Dr. Francis Mason of Burma, took the long journey home expressly to present her plea in person to the American Baptist Missionary Union and the women of the churches. She held numerous ...
There were flourishing missions and mission schools and hospitals in China, in South America, and in Mexico. In the field in China, there were 9 missionaries of the Woman's Board, 52 native teachers, 5 Bible women, 4 boardings chools, 33 day-schools, 758 pupils, and I hospital and dispensary. [6]
The church was pastored by Richard Fuller, the third president of the Southern Baptist Convention, [3] who was heavily involved in missionary activities. [4] She worked with multiple Baltimore missionary organizations ministering to orphans, African Americans, Native Americans, Chinese Americans immigrants, and indigent women and families. [2]
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] Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society - 1873 [1] Ladies' Medical Missionary Society of Philadelphia - 1851 [3]
Oriental Home and School for Women and Girls, 912 Washington St, San Francisco Chinatown; dedicated by the Methodist Women's Home Missionary Society, 1901. The Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast of the Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on October 29, 1870 by Methodist Rev. Otis T. Gibson, [1] with eleven women he recruited in ...
From 1922, the general society was named the Mennonite Women's Missionary Society. [1] In 1928, the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities created a women's mission committee to operate under it. In the 1933 constitution, the committee took the name The General Sewing Circle Committee of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.
One of Hunt's first initiatives after being chosen to head the WMU was to support the formation of the women's department of the Baptist World Alliance, and also the BWA's interdenominational North American Baptist Women's Union. [3] She served as president of the latter in 1964–67, and vice president of the former in 1970–75. [2]