{"id":5513,"date":"2020-02-28T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:30:22","slug":"valdez-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/2020\/02\/28\/valdez-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdez, Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Brave Servant To Immigrant Children In Tampa<\/h3>\n<p>Rosa Valdez was a<strong>\u00a0brave\u00a0<\/strong>Hispanic woman moved by the plight of immigrant children arriving in her hometown of Tampa, Florida, in the late 19th century when segregation was the law of the land. The children were banned from public schools, so Ms. Valdez used her own funds and, with help from benefactors, established a small school for the children in west Tampa. At the same time, Eliza Wolff, who wintered in Tampa, was urging the Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South to form a mission school for immigrants living in east Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>The small mission begun as a result of the determination of these two women grew and adapted to the community\u2019s changing needs over the years. Today, it is called Cornerstone Family Ministries, a United Methodist Women-related national mission institution in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRAVE:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>As United Methodist Women celebrates 150 years of women in mission, we\u2019re honoring traits that make our members and our programs so vital. Ms. Valdez\u2019s<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>bravery<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>helped shape who we are today.<\/p>\n<p>Please view more at<span>\u00a0<\/span>United Methodist Women, currently known as <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwfaith.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">United Women in Faith<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(formerly known as United Methodist Women).\u00a0United Women in Faith is the official organization for women within The United Methodist Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/missiology\/files\/2020\/02\/Global-Ministries-bicentennial-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5346\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave Servant To Immigrant Children In Tampa Rosa Valdez was a\u00a0brave\u00a0Hispanic woman moved by the plight of immigrant children arriving in her hometown of Tampa, Florida, in the late 19th century when segregation was the law of the land. The children were banned from public schools, so Ms. Valdez used her own funds and, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}