STH: Missions & Missiology

• Women’s Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1895-1923 (1 reel)
  This society was organized in Pittsburgh in 1879 and worked autonomously but in cooperation with the Board of Missions.  It existed to unite the women of the Methodist Protestant Church in efforts to promote and extend the organized work of missions.
• Board of Missions Minutes, 1850-1908; Official Records, 1928-1949; Annual Reports, 1922-1940 (1 reel)
  This was the agency responsible for sending out foreign missionaries.  From 1834 until 1877 it was called Board of Foreign Missions, and from 1877-1888 it was named Board of Missions.  From 1888 until 1924 it was again called Board of Foreign Missions.
• Board of Home Missions Minutes, 1912-1925 (1 reel)
  This agency carried out the work of domestic missions within the bounds of the United States and its territories, except for those missions under the control of the Annual Conferences.

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