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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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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Episcopalian service members wear it on their dog tags or otherwise carry it with them at all times. In 1917, the Episcopal Church created a War Commission to help...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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operates the public bus service in Chennai, India Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area) Ministry of Transport and Communications (Venezuela)...
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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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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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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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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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Ailie Gale (category Christian medical missionaries)
(1878–1958) was an American physician. She served as a medical missionary in China under commission from the Methodist Episcopal Board of Missions from 1908...
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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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Amelia Stone Quinton (category American women civil rights activists)
Quinton as unanimously elected president. She bore a government commission and did service also on behalf of Indian education. She died on June 23, 1926...
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Church of the Nazarene (redirect from Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association)
Nazarene family in Kobe, Japan before and during WWII. Dorothy Davis Cook was appointed to the Nazarene missionary service on November 22, 1939. She established...
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Selma University (redirect from Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School)
in 1960 and named for Susie Stone, Secretary of the Women's Convention and Reverend U. J. Robinson, President of the Alabama State Missionary Baptist...
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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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Medical Service, a one-year experiment based in Cloncurry, Queensland. This experiment later became The Royal Flying Doctor Service. Flynn's missionary work...
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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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delivered to a British settlement called Epworth, where Munro is to perform missionary work, he becomes Rangimai's religion tutor in Christianity. Although the...
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