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In 1890 the women adopted the name Woman's Missionary Union, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention. The headquarters of WMU was originally stationed in the Maryland Baptist Missions Reading Room where Annie Armstrong had an already established office.
Belle Harris Bennett (December 3, 1852 – July 20, 1922) led the struggle for and won laity rights for women in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She was the founding president of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Southern Methodist Church.
It was the first seminary in the nation to offer courses in religious education, beginning in 1903. This program ultimately expanded into a School of Religious Education in 1953. In 1907, William Owen Carver founded the Women's Missionary Union Training School, which eventually became the Carver School of Missions and Social Work. [30]
In 1890 the General Conference established the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society as a department of the Board of Church Extension. As an appointed member of the Society's Central Committee, Sue Bennett began the work to establish a school in the southeastern Kentucky mountains. [1] She died before her work was finished.
Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions - 1886 [1]; United Baptist Woman's Missionary Union of the Maritime Provinces - 1906 [1]; Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario (West) - 1876 [1]
Willie Harding McGavock. In April 1874, largely through the efforts of Mrs. Kelley, some of the Methodist women of Nashville, formed themselves into an organization known as a "Bible Mission," with two distinct objects: one to furnish aid and Bible instruction to the poor and destitute of the city, the other to collect and contribute pecuniary aid to foreign missionary fields. [6]
The Trend of the Races: a Home-Mission Study Book, George E. Haynes (Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, New York, 1922) 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)
Born to Clara Barbee and Benjamin F. Pettit on a prosperous farm in Fayette County, Kentucky, Pettit attended two years at Sayre School in Lexington. A member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, she became a progressive educator. [1] [2]