The Women's Missionary and Service Commission, previously known as the Women's Missionary and Service Auxiliary and abbreviated WMSC or WMSA, was a women's...
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United States Women's Missionary and Service Commission, name established 1955, attached to the Mennonite Church Woman's Missionary Union Women's Political...
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Sewing circle (Mennonite) (category Women's organizations)
in need around the world. The Women's Missionary and Service Commission grew out of such sewing circles. Mennonite women of Eastern Pennsylvania were sewing...
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Alliance World Fellowship (redirect from Christian And Missionary Alliance)
and Missionary Alliance of the United States approved women being ordained as pastors, but only if the women's local church leadership approves, and never...
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Motor Sport Council William Morris Society of Canada Women's Missionary and Service Commission, a women's organization that originated out of the Mennonite...
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A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education,...
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Southern Baptist Convention (redirect from Great Commission Baptists)
or missionary support). Politically and culturally, Southern/Great Commission Baptists tend to be conservative. Most oppose homosexual activity and abortion...
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organizations and ministries today. These ministries are: Baptist Nursing FellowshipSM, Christian Women's Job Corps, International InitiativesSM, Missionary Housing...
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unmarried women, and of trying to sell a baby boy for roughly £1,325. The Missionaries of Charity had discontinued its participation in adoption services in...
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Prairie Street Mennonite Church (category Buildings and structures in Elkhart, Indiana)
members, served as president of the Indiana-Michigan Women's Missionary and Service Commission and Graber also served as the president of the church-wide...
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Pandita Ramabai (category Missionary linguists)
Indian social reformer and Christian missionary. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being...
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Frances Xavier Cabrini (category 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns)
of missionary service. She had planned, like Francis Xavier, to be a missionary in the Far East. In November 1880, Cabrini and seven other women who...
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Protestant missions in China (category Protestant missionaries in China)
women's missionary organizations, especially the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and women began...
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of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Part of the Consolidated Missionary Baptist State Convention. Part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Part...
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On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador...
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Methodism (redirect from Methodist Missionary Society)
British Empire, the United States and beyond because of vigorous missionary work, and today has about 80 million adherents worldwide. Wesleyan theology...
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The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada ordains women since 2016. The Christian and Missionary Alliance in the US ordains women since 2023. The...
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Tillie Paul (category Missionary linguists)
Home Missions to found a new missionary school. Located in Klukwan, Alaska, the school served 64 men and women; Tillie and her husband visited homes three...
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Whitman College (redirect from Whitman College Missionaries)
determined to establish a "monument" to his former missionary colleagues in the form of a school for pioneer boys and girls. Eells obtained a charter for Whitman...
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Margaret E. Burton (category American Protestant missionaries)
(1885–1969) was an American missionary who traveled to China and Japan in 1909. She wrote several books based on her experiences and research while there. Burton...
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Richard (23 April 2014). This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography. New York, New York: Routledge. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-136-66351-2...
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Centre for Adults Archdiocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People Ark Quest Asian Women's Welfare Association As-Salaam...
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Eliza Hart Spalding (category American Presbyterian missionaries)
Spalding (1807–1851) was an American missionary who joined an Oregon missionary party with her husband Henry H. Spalding and settled among the Nez Perce People...
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Baptist Women's Ministry Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Women's Fellowship Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Women's Missionary Council...
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Amy Carmichael (category Church of England Zenana Missionary Society)
Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years and wrote 35 books about...
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United Church of Christ in the Philippines (category United and uniting churches)
the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Free Methodist Church, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and the Presbyterian...
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legal name of the national church corporate body is the "Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...
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Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (redirect from Missionary Area of Macao)
into three dioceses in Hong Kong and one missionary area in Macau. Each diocese is led by a bishop and the missionary area is directly led by the Archbishop...
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Simpson University (category Universities and colleges affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance)
relocated to San Francisco in 1955 and then to Redding in 1989. It is affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Simpson College, named after...
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William Carey University (redirect from Mississippi Women's College)
Carey, the 18th-century English cordwainer-linguist whose decades of missionary activity in India earned him international recognition as the "Father...
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