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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 ...
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.
In the wake of the Civil War, the seminary suspended classes for several years. [14] With the financial help of several wealthy Baptists, including John D. Rockefeller and a group of Kentucky business leaders who promised to underwrite the construction of a new campus, [15] [16] the seminary relocated to Fifth Street and Broadway in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in 1877.
By the early 1920s, 100,000 or more of the books for adults were printed, and proportionately large editions of the books for children and young people. Both bodies sold at wholesale to boards and denominational agencies, the Movement to the general boards, the council to the women's boards. Retail sales were made by the boards to the ...
The society published several books, including The story and work of the Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands (1883). [ 6 ] The society inspired other Christian women, including the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church , which was established after members attended a speech given by ...
Kentucky Mountain Bible College (KMBC) is a private Holiness bible college in Vancleve, Kentucky. It is a ministry of the Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association . The college claims that over 70% of its graduates have entered Christian ministry, including speakers, missionaries, and pastors in over 60 countries worldwide.
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Sue Bennett College was a private college in London, Kentucky which operated from 1897 through 1997. It was affiliated originally with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and later the United Methodist Church. It began as an elementary school and ended its days as a four-year college. Portrait of Susan Ann Bennett of Richmond, Kentucky