Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #07 Page 0027,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed July 11, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60639. The Rev. Tracey K. Jones Jr., was among the last Christian missionaries to enter China before the country was closed to outside church personnel in 1950; he would serve as […]
Mentors To Filipino Clergy Board of Missions of the Methodist Church , “Mission Photograph Album – Portraits #09 Page 0003,” UMC Digital Galleries, accessed July 11, 2018, http://catalog.gcah.org/omeka/items/show/60941. Dr. Richard and Mrs. Eva Wehrman were outstanding evangelists and stewardship development mentors. During the many years that they served in the Northwest Philippines Annual Conference, many […]
The Founder Of Wesleyan Missions In Italy The founder of Wesleyan Methodist missions to Italy was born in Lowestoft, England, in 1831, the son of a former missionary to Sierra Leone. He was educated at Kingswood School and Wesley College Taunton, before attending the University of London where he obtained a first class degree in […]
Missionary Worker In Quéssua, Angola Miss Susan Angeline Collins was the daughter of Isaac Collins—born in North Carolina in 1808, emancipated in 1845, and served in the Civil War, 1864-1865—and Sarah Ann Joiner Collins—born in 1825 and emancipated in 1839. Miss Collins was their fourth daughter. As a young woman, she worked for a pastor, […]
Medical Work And Care For Orphans, Quéssua Mission, Angola Martha Drummer was born in 1871 in Barnesville, Georgia, the third of eight children in her family. Her father, a Methodist preacher, died of typhoid fever when Martha was 15. Mrs. Drummer moved the family to Griffen, Georgia, where the children had access to public education. […]
Teacher, Nurse, & Administrator Who Spent More Than 50 Years Ministering To Lepers In India Mary Reed was born in 1854 in Lowell, Ohio, to Wesley W. Reed and Sarah Ann (Henderson) Reed. After graduation from Ohio Central Normal School in Worthington, Ohio, she began a teaching career. When she was 30, she applied to join […]
A Castilian Boy Who Became A Captive, A Kiowa Son, And A Methodist Minister In Oklahoma The Rev. Andres (Andele) Martinez and J. J. Methvin (The Rev. John Jasper) were described as “fast friends and Christian workers for more than 40 years” by author and fellow missionary, Robert Satterfield. Andres Martinez and his Kiowa kinsman, […]
Founders Of Ganta Methodist Mission Station In Liberia Dr. George Way Harley and Winifred Frances Jewell Harley, a botanist, founded and served the Ganta mission station in Nimba County, Liberia, from 1925 to 1960. Dr. Harley was a prolific and dedicated man whose interests could not be confined to one profession. An article in World Outlook, […]
50 Years Of Service: “I Give Five Dollars And Myself For Work In China.” Mary Isabella McClellan Lambuth, wife of James W. Lambuth, mother of Walter R. Lambuth and Nora Lambuth Park, missionary to China and Japan with a career spanning more than 50 years. Mary Isabella McClellan, from the Hudson River Valley of New […]
Missionary To China For Forty-Eight Years Photo courtesy of General Commission on Archives and History Nora Lambuth, daughter of Rev. J. W. Lambuth and Mary McClellan Lambuth, was born in 1863 while her parents, who were missionaries in Shanghai, China, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, were home on furlough in Mississippi. She was born […]