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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]
Lottie Moon. During the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Virginia, in May 1888, a group of women delegates from 12 states gathered at the Broad Street United Methodist Church and organized the Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention.
Zenana missions was the strongest feature of this society's labors from the beginning. In Calcutta, it was known as "The American Doremus Zenana Mission". It included the superintendent (always one of the missionary women); 16 missionaries; 55 native teachers; zenana pupils, 1,000; schools, 50; suburban schools, in Kanpur, 12; and Entally, two.
The Society joined with the Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast in 1893 and by 1901, about 500 women and girls had been helped. That year they opened the "Oriental Home for Chinese Women and Girls" at 912 Washington Street in San Francisco's Chinatown, a two-story concrete building with 22 rooms. [4]
This society sent to India, China, Korea, and Japan the first woman medical missionary ever received in those countries. [ 2 ] By 1903, its 34th year, it had 265 missionaries carrying on its work in India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa, Bulgaria, Italy, South America, Mexico, and the Philippines, by means of women's colleges, high schools ...
In three years, the Nashville society secured a home for the poor of the city, and founded the Mission Home" for "fallen women". [6] A few years prior to the organization of the Woman's Bible Mission of Nashville, Mrs. Juliana Hayes had begun work in Trinity Church, Baltimore, Maryland forming a society called the Trinity Home Mission. In 1873 ...
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.
Lutheran Women's Missionary League logo, adopted 1991 The Lutheran Women's Missionary League ( LWML ) is the official women's auxiliary of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). The national organization publishes the Lutheran Woman's Quarterly four times a year, and districts usually have their own newsletters.