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Christian Woman's Board Of Missions
The Christian Woman's Board of Missions (CWBM) was a missionary organization associated with the Restoration Movement.Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, ''The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, , , 854 pages, entry on ''Christian Woman's Board of Missions'', pages 200-2002 Established in 1874, it was the first such group managed entirely by women. It hired both men and women, and supported both domestic and foreign missions. History The Christian Woman's Board of Missions was created by the American Christian Missionary Society on October 21, 1874. It was a grassroots organization intended to serve women and children worldwide. While many members also supported other 19th century causes such as temperance and suffrage Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thomas Hale 'On Being a Missionary' 2003, William Carey Library Pub, . In the Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible, Jesus, Jesus Christ says the word when he sends the disciples into areas and commands them to preach the gospel in his name. The term is most commonly used in reference to Christian missions, but it can also be used in reference to any creed or ideology. The word ''mission'' originated in 1598 when Jesuits, the members of the Society of Jesus sent members abroad, derived from the Latin (nominative case, nom. ), meaning 'act of sending' or , meaning 'to send'. By religion Buddhist missions The first Buddhist missionaries were called "Dharma Bhanaks", and some see a missionary charge in the symbolism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Restoration Movement
The Restoration Movement (also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone–Campbell Movement, and pejoratively as Campbellism) is a Christian movement that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening (1790–1840) of the early 19th century. The pioneers of this movement were seeking to reform the church from within and sought "the unification of all Christians in a single body patterned after the church of the New Testament." Rubel Shelly, ''I Just Want to Be a Christian'', 20th Century Christian, Nashville, TN 1984, The Restoration Movement developed from several independent strands of religious revival that idealized early Christianity. Two groups which independently developed similar approaches to the Christian faith were particularly important. The first, led by Barton W. Stone, began at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, and identified as "Christians". The second began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia (now West Virginia) and was led by Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Christian Missionary Society
The American Christian Missionary Society (ACMS) was the first missionary organization associated with the Restoration Movement.Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, ''The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, , , 854 pages, entry on ''American Christian Missionary Society'', pages 24-26 History Prior to the establishment of the American Christian Missionary Society (ACMS), Alexander Campbell had actively opposed missionary societies on the basis that they preempted the church's role in missions and served as a focus for division, insisting that the church itself should be the only missionary society. (Examples of such missionary societies were the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Missionary Association, American Home Mission Society, and the American Baptist Home Mission Society.) This opposition was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance Movement
The temperance movement is a social movement promoting Temperance (virtue), temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emphasize alcohol (drug), alcohol's negative effects on people's Health effects of alcohol, health, personalities, and family lives. Typically the movement promotes alcohol education and it also demands the passage of new Alcohol law, laws against the sale of alcohol: either regulations on the availability of alcohol, or the prohibition of it. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became prominent in many countries, particularly in English-speaking, Scandinavian, and majority Protestant ones, and it eventually led to national prohibitions Prohibition in Canada, in Canada (1918 to 1920), Norway (spirits only from 1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum, 1919 to 1926 Norwegian continued prohibition ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Suffrage In The United States
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various U.S. states, states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. By the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities. The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, one led by Susan B. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Bostick
Sarah Lue Bostick (1868–1948) born Sarah Lue Howard near Glasgow, Kentucky, on May 27, 1868, was key in organizing the first African-American Christian Woman's Board of Missions auxiliary in 1892 and subsequent clubs throughout the south at the turn of the 20th century. In 1892, she was the first African American woman ordained in the Disciples. Works * See also * Sadie McCoy Crank * Jessie Trout Jessie M. Trout (July 26, 1895 – 1990) was a Canadian missionary to Japan for nearly 20 years until she left Japan during World War II. She was a leader in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), including being the first woman to serve as ... References Further reading * * * * * * * 1868 births 1948 deaths American Christian missionaries African-American religious leaders Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergy Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) missionaries {{US-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell
Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell (11 October 1802 – 28 June 1897) was an important woman in the Restoration Movement, which is sometimes referred to as the Stone-Campbell Movement. She was the second wife of Alexander Campbell. The daughter of Samuel and Anna Maria (Bean) Bakewell, her birth was registered as having occurred in the Parish of St. Mary at Lichfield in Staffordshire County, England. Her birth record notes that her family were non-conformists, indicating they were not members of the Anglican Church, but were either Presbyterian, Independent, or Baptist. Selina Bakewell was baptized at nineteen years of age by her mentor, Alexander Campbell, and had a close relationship with his wife, Margaret Brown Campbell. She became a member of the Wellsburg, West Virginia, Church of Christ and formed a very close relationship with the Campbell family. So close that, as Margaret lay dying of tuberculosis, Margaret secured a promise from her husband to consider the young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice Caldwell Cowles
Eunice Caldwell Cowles (February 4, 1811 – September 10, 1903) was an American educator who influenced hundreds of women in the U.S. and abroad. She was the first associate of Mary Lyon in the opening of Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). She had previously graduated under Lyon and Zilpah Grant from Ipswich Seminary (later known as, Ipswich Female Seminary) in 1829, where she was afterwards principal from 1844 to 1876. She also served as the first principal of Wheaton Seminary (now Wheaton College). She was also affiliated with the Christian Woman's Board of Missions (C.W.B.M.), having co-founded the Essex North Branch and serving as its president. Early life and education Eunice Caldwell was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, February 4, 1811. Her parents were Capt. John and Eunice (Stanwood) Caldwell. Her father drowned in 1835. Cowles graduated from the Ipswich Female Seminary with the first class in 1829. Career For ten years before her marriage, she was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara H
Clara may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Clara'' (2018 film), a Canadian sci-fi drama * ''Clara'' (2019 film), a Ukrainian animated fantasy film * ''Clara'' (TV series), a German TV series * Clara the Cow, mascot of the Greek TV show '' Pio Poli Tin Kiriaki'' * ''Clara'' (opera), a 1998 opera by Hans Gefors, libretto by Jean-Claude Carrière * ''Clara'', a 1987 one-act stage play by Arthur Miller * ''Clara'' (album), a 2021 album by Loscil * "Clara", a song by Scott Walker from the 2006 album '' The Drift'' People and fictional characters * Clara (given name), a feminine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters * Clara (surname), a list of people surnamed Clara or Clarà * Clare of Assisi (1194–1253), sometimes called Clara, Italian saint * Aemilia Clara, mother of Roman Emperor Didius Julianus (emperor from March to June 193) * Didia Clara (born c. 153), only child of the Roman Emperor Didius Julianus and Empress Manlia Scantilla * Clara La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella St
Luella may refer to: *Luella, Georgia, U.S. * Luella, Texas, U.S. * Luella Garvey House a designer house in Reno, Nevada, U.S. *Luella High School Locust Grove, Georgia, U.S. *Luella Island, an uninhabited Canadian arctic island * Luella, a fashion label started by Luella Bartley *''Luella'', a 1983 album by jazz flautist James Newton People with the given name *Luella Bartley (born 1974), English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist * Luella Bates (1897–1985), the first woman truck driver (American) *Luella Buros (1901–1995), American painter * Luella Clay Carson (1866–1933), former university president in Oregon and California * Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), American author, hymn writer * Luella Costales, American politician and member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives * Luella Creighton (1901–1996), Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer * Luella Kirkbride Drumm (1872–1962), American politician *Luella Johnston (1861–1958), American bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Neville Pearre
Caroline Neville Pearre (1834–1910) began the Christian Woman's Board of Missions (CWBM) in 1874, after she felt that she was called to do so by God. Pearre was living in Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City is the largest city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. At the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the population was 74,828, making it the state's List of cities in Iowa, fifth-most populous c ... at the time, having taught at Christian colleges in Missouri, Kentucky and Ohio. The wife of a Disciples of Christ pastor, Pearre organized a missionary society in her own church in Iowa City. Friends of hers in other Christian churches organized similar missionary societies in their churches. These various societies united and formed the American Christian Missionary Society which became the Christian Women's Board of Missions (CWBM). Pearre died in 1910, in her sister's home in Kentucky. She was buried in Lexington. References {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Trout
Jessie M. Trout (July 26, 1895 – 1990) was a Canadian missionary to Japan for nearly 20 years until she left Japan during World War II. She was a leader in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), including being the first woman to serve as vice president of the denomination's United Christian Missionary Society. She co-founded the Christian Women's Fellowship (1950) and the International Christian Women's Fellowship (1953), both Disciples groups for women. She also was a writer and translator. She received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Bethany College in 1955. Early life Jessie Mary Trout was born to Archibald Trout on July 26, 1895 at Owen Sound off of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. She graduated from Owen Sound Collegiate Institute and studied at the teachers college, Toronto Normal School. She was a school teacher, when she traveled to Indianapolis in 1920. She also studied at The College of Missions in Indianapolis, which trained missionaries for the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
