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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 Association of the Church of the UB [2] Women's Missionary Association of the Presbyterian Church of England [2] Woman's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association - 1880 [1] Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) [9] Women's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America [2]
The earliest authentic record indicates that the first effort to organize and project in the South any form of missionary work for women was undertaken in 1858 by Mrs. Margaret Lavinia Kelley. [2] She was the wife of an itinerant preacher, the Rev. John Kelley, at that time located at Bethlehem, Tennessee, Lebanon Circuit.
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]
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.
A version in the South was founded in 1888, the Southern Women's Foreign and Home Missionary Society. [2] At the 1884 General Conference, delegates sanctioned the licensing of women as lay preachers, though formal ordination was still prohibited. At the same conference, a resolution was introduced to limit the roles of female preachers within ...
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]