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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 ...
Women's missionary societies include a diverse set of scopes, including medical, educational, and religious. Societies provide services in-country and in foreign lands. Societies provide services in-country and in foreign lands.
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 various Baltimore missionary organizations ministering to orphans, African Americans, Native Americans, Chinese Americans immigrants, and indigent women and families. [2]
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.
Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason (12 January 1817 – 3 August 1894) was an American Baptist foreign missionary and writer. [1] The founder of the Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands, she was the first woman in the US to sign an agreement to institute a union effort by women, independent of denominational control, to bring the Gospel to the zenanas of India.
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]
In the Vanguard of a Race, L. H. Hammond (Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, New York, 1922) Of One Blood: a Short Study of the Race Problem, Robert E. Speer (Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, New York, 1924)