Educational Missionaries In China And Singapore Olin and Esther Stockwell, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #08 Page 0043,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 8, 2017, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60822. Born in Oklahoma and Korea, Olin served as pastor in his home state of Oklahoma immediately after his marriage to Esther […]
First Indigenous Filipino Missionary And Founder Of Independent Filipino Methodism Source: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bishop_Nicolas_Zamora_in_1904_newspaper.png One Sunday in July 1899, the interpreter for missionary Arthur W. Prautch failed to appear at services in Manila. Prautch asked one of the congregation, Paulino Zamora, to speak. Zamora did so briefly and then bowed out in favor of his […]
MEC Missionary To China And Chinese-Americans Taken from Jeff Staley’s “Gum Moon”: The First Fifty Years of Methodist Women’s Work in San Francisco Chinatown, 1870-1920.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Gibson#/media/File:Otis_Gibson_1.jpg In 1854, at the age of 27, Otis Gibson, a graduate of Dickinson College, was appointed a missionary to China, along with Dr. Erastus Wentworth, professor of natural […]
Founder Of Norwegian Methodism And Co-Founder Of Norwegian-American Methodism Methodism in Norway owes its introduction to a single founder, Ole Peter Petersen. As a young Norwegian sailor, Petersen had his first contact with the Methodists in Boston in 1843. The next three years brought much serious reflection and a strong feeling of spiritual need. In […]
Missionary To Swedish Sailors And Immigrants To The US Olof Gustaf Hedström was born in the province of Kronberg, Sweden. At age twenty-two, he shipped as a sailor on a vessel bound for South America. It was diverted from its course and in 1825 entered the port of New York where it was sold. On […]
Founder Of Japanese-American Methodism; Missionary To Hawaii And Japan Public Domain. Taken from https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/worship/lectionary-calendar/twenty-third-sunday-after-pentecost-year-c-2016 In 1877, when only fifty or sixty Japanese had arrived in San Francisco, Kanichi Miyama and K. Nonaka began to receive Christian instruction from Otis Gibson of the Chinese Mission, and later united with the Church. Kanichi Miyama was a native […]
Gran Colportor Metodista 1851 – 26 de Setiembre, nacimiento de Francisco G. Penzotti en la ciudad de Chiavenna, Italia. 1864 – Llega a la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay, a la edad de trece años. 1870 – Contrae matrimonio con Josefa Joaquina Sagastibelza, nacida en Elduayen, España. La ceremonia religiosa se realizó en la catedral de Montevideo. Tienen ocho […]
Pioneering Methodist Preacher In Illinois Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was born in Amherst County, Virginia. The family soon moved to Logan County, Kentucky, where 16 year old Peter was converted at a camp meeting and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became a preacher in 1802 and was later ordained by Francis Asbury and William McKendree. […]
Mission Editor Arthur J. Moore, Jr. was for 34 years an editor of the mission magazine of The Methodist Church, then The United Methodist Church, first with World Outlook, and later the editor in chief of New World Outlook for 22 years. At its peak, the publication has a circulation of more than 100,000. He was the son […]
“Mr. Mission” Bishop Arthur J. Moore was “Mr. Mission” for a generation of Methodists in the middle of the 20th century. He was president of the unified Board of Missions of The Methodist Church (forerunner of the Board of Global Ministries) from its founding in 1940 through 1956, and had played a pivotal role in […]