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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.
Amy Carmichael was a prolific writer, publishing many books and articles about her experiences as a missionary in India. Temple prostitution was outlawed in India in 1948. Carmichael died in India in 1951 at the age of 83. She asked that no stone be put over her grave at Dohnavur. Other Christian missionaries have cited her as an influence. [12]
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 ...
Female Christian missionaries (3 C, 469 P) Pages in category "Female missionaries" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
It includes Roman Catholic missionaries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female Roman Catholic missionaries" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
Maria Jane Taylor (née Dyer, 16 January 1837 – 23 July 1870) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and "Mother" of the China Inland Mission with her husband, founder James Hudson Taylor. She was a pioneer missionary and educator there for 12 years (from 1852 to 1860 and 1866 to 1870).
Initially, Bible women were trained by women missionaries on an individual basis. [8] They were taught the Bible, but on occasion, they were taught nursing, writing, homemaking, and health. [ 13 ] However, in later years, the number of Bible women increased and female training schools were opened: in China, alone, forty girls' schools were ...
Catherine Elisabeth Mulgrave also Gewe (19 November 1827 – 14 January 1891) was an Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer educator, administrator and missionary who accompanied a group of 24 Caribbean mission recruits from Jamaica and Antigua and arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu, Accra in Ghana in 1843.