Classical Early 20th Century Mission Story Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #10 Page 0084,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/61171. James E. McEldowney represents the classical missionary story of the early twentieth century. At a student volunteer meeting in Detroit in 1927, he pledged to […]
Civil Rights Leader And Short-Term Missionary To India Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #07 Page 0087,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60699. Lawson was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1928, one of nine children of a U.S. Methodist pastor and a Jamaican mother. He […]
Theological Educator Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #10 Page 0110,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/61197. Lloyd Knox used his skills and leadership in two different societies. He and his family had gone to Cuba, where he taught in the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Matanzas. […]
YWCA Worker And Educator Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #07 Page 0086,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60698. Kawai was born the daughter of a Shinto priest in a small village near Kyoto. She became a Christian through the influence of an uncle, going […]
Leader In Settlement Work When the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), began its foray into settlement work at the turn of the twentieth century, it asked Sara Estelle Haskin to take up the post in Dallas. With no equipment and no real pattern to follow, she plunged into the work and began a very successful […]
Bishop And Ecumenist Of The Methodist Church Of Mexico Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #06 Page 058,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60382. Guerra was born in Reynosa, Mexico, and studied in the U.S. He ordination in the U.S. was in the Methodist Episcopal Church, […]
Founder Of Lunda Methodism The following is from an article by Nancy Woodcock Riley, daughter of Congo missionaries Vera and Everrett Woodcock. Lunda Evangelist of the MEC, Tshangand Kayeke, 1917. Photo: John Springer–GCAH Mission Albums Africa #6, P. 45 In the late 1800s, when Tshangand Kayeke was a young boy, Portuguese slave traders came through […]
Advocate Of Integration In Methodism Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #10 Page 0133,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/61220. Born August 24, 1912, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Golden received degrees from Clark College and Gammon Theological Seminary, both in Atlanta. He was ordained an elder […]
Leader Of Deaconesses And Women’s Mission Work Photo from https://www.morrisfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Betsy-Ewing/ Ewing came out of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, although it became part of The Methodist Church when she was a teenager. As she was growing up, she planned to go to Scarritt College. She not only completed […]
Leader Of Board Of Foreign Missions Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #05 Page 020,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60129. Diffendorfer claimed that as a Sunday school student he was inspired with such a passion for mission by British missionary David Livingstone that it […]