Advocate For Peace And Justice Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #11 Page 0081,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/61319. Deats grew up in a Methodist family in Texas and attended McMurry College in Abilene, Texas, in the early 1950s. There he became active in the […]
Preacher of the first Spanish-language Methodist sermon in Argentina By 1866 the Argentine mission was prospering but the most important step had not yet taken place. This was such a constant preoccupation for Rev. Goodfellow, the Superintendent of the Conference, who in his report of April 1865, a kind of premonition abruptly erupted: We need […]
First Executive Of Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society Nathan Bangs, 1778 -1862, was the primary organizer and first administrator of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, founded in 1819. He was concurrently for almost a decade the head of the denomination’s Book Concern. Thus, Bangs had a major impact on the origins of two of the United […]
Missionaries To India And Malaysia Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #11 Page 0111,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed November 27, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/61349. Leila (Lee) come out of Middleville Methodist Church in Michigan, a small-town rural congregation that was on the cutting edge of theology and was proud of […]
Methodist Missionary to Gbarnga, Liberia The Rev. Ulysses Samuel Gray, mission superintendent of the Gbarnga Mission Station, 1948-1974. He preaches here from the pulpit of the Gbarnga Methodist Church. GCAH Mission Albums Africa #16, P. 72. The Rev. Ulysses Samuel Gray served as a missionary with the Methodist Board of Missions at the Gbarnga Mission […]
Outstanding Early Missionary To Liberia The Ladies’ Repository (November, 1859), plate preceding p. 641. Taken from “Portraits of American Women in Religion,” The Library Company of Philadelphia, http://librarycompany.org/women/portraits_religion/wilkins.htm Ann Wilkins was a missionary to Liberia from 1837-1857. She was the first American Methodist female missionary sent out by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal […]
First Ordained African-American Methodist Woman And Missionary To Appalachia Photo taken from “History of the Bethlehem Center and our United Methodist Roots,” The Bethlehem Center, https://www.thebeth.org/104.23. Sallie Crenshaw was twice a ground-breaker in African-American women’s ordination in the Methodist tradition. In 1936, she was one of the two first African-American woman ordained as a local […]
Missionary To Korea And First Woman Fully Ordained In The Methodist Church In 1956 the General Conference granted full clergy rights to women by voting that they could be admitted into full ministerial membership in Methodist Annual Conferences. On May 18, within a month of this action, Ms. Maud K. Jensen, a missionary to Korea, […]
First Ordained Latino Methodist And Missionary To Mexico Photo taken from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21349487/alejo-hernandez In 1873, the first train on the new line out of Vera Cruz carried a Methodist bishop and Alejo Hernandez, the first Latino to be ordained in Methodism, who was the bishop’s choice to establish […]
First Priciple Of Chicago Training School And “Archbishop Of Deaconnesses” Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #04 Page 217,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed September 24, 2019, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60071. It is said of the first college in the United States to award degrees to women, Oberlin (1841), that it […]