Women in missionary work.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works dealing with the work of women in promoting church missions.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Brookline, Mass. Harvard Church Abbie Maria Colby Club letter and photogaph, 1899. : [manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: MS0848
Brookline, Mass. Leyden Congregational Church records, 1895-1975.
Collection
Identifier: RG0701
Abstract
The Leyden Congregational Church in Brookline, Massachusetts was incorporated on November 24, 1896, with the cornerstone for the church building at 1835 Beacon Street having been laid on May 19, 1899. The Church eventually closed in 1975, after nearly eight decades of serving its neighboring community. This collection contains records on the committees and organizations, history, administration, building and finances, and church life of Leyden Congregational Church.
Dates:
1895-1975
Lucy A. Wilson Moore's history of the Congregational Christian Woman's Fellowship of Illinois, 1960-1963.
Collection
Identifier: RG5352
Abstract
The Congregational Christian Woman's Fellowship of Illinois was an important institution which provided both monetary aid and personnel to local churches as well as providing aid for global missionary work.The collection includes a typewritten historical sketch of the Congregational Christian Woman's Fellowship of Illinois. The history includes biographical sketches of the organization's presidents, the historical roots of women's missionary societies in Illinois, and the complex...
Dates:
1960-1963
Massachusetts Woman's Home Missionary Union records, 1880-1990.
Collection
Identifier: RG0122
Abstract
The first meeting of the Woman’s Home Missionary Association was held on November 4, 1879 and the organization was formally chartered on September 28, 1881. The association was founded to support the needs of women and children and was supported by both individual membership and auxiliary groups. The association supported mission-based work in Massachusetts and beyond, especially in the post-war South. After the Massachusetts Congregational Conference merged men’s and women’s missionary work...
Dates:
1880-1990