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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 ...
United Baptist Woman's Missionary Union of the Maritime Provinces - 1906 [1] Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario (West) - 1876 [1] Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Eastern Ontario and Quebec - 1876 [1] Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Canada - after 1834 [1]
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.
Annie Walker Armstrong (July 11, 1850 – December 20, 1938) was a lay Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union. Early life [ edit ]
A generous woman of Baltimore purchased and donated a home for the missionaries in Nantziang-the "Louise Home". [6] Probably the most far-reaching plan made at this meeting was the decision to publish a missionary magazine to be called the Woman's Missionary Advocate. It was established at Nashville, with Mrs. F. A. Butler elected as editor. [6 ...
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To the family's surprise, Lottie's younger sister Edmonia accepted a call to go to north China as the first single woman Baptist missionary in 1872. [3] By this time, the Southern Baptist Convention had relaxed its policy against sending single women into the mission field, and Lottie soon felt called to follow her sister to China. On July 7 ...