STH: Missions & Missiology

• Board of Missions Minutes, 1866-1942 (5 reels)
  This was the agency created by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to manage the denomination’s missionary activity.  The board meeting minutes run from 1866 until 1942, when the Methodist Episcopal Church, South officially merged with the Methodist Church.

Reel 1--v. 1-4, 1866-1910; Reel 2--v. 4-8, 1911-1923; Reel 3--v. 8-11, 1924-1929; Reel 4--v. 11-14, 1930-1934; Reel 5--v. 15-16, 1934-1942.

• Woman’s Missionary Advocate, 1880-1904 (4 reels)
  Nashville, TN:  Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

• Conference Journal of the Texas Mexican Mission, 1920-1941 (3 reels) Minutes and reports of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Texas Mexican Mission.

Roll No. 1. Texas Mexican Mission Southern Conferences, 1927-1939 -- Mexican Mission 1920. -- Roll No. 2. Mexican Mission 1920 to SW Mexican Journal 1941. -- Roll No. 3. SW Mexican Journal 1941 to Conference Journals. Episcopal Church South, 1890-1939.

• Journal of the Indian Mission Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 1894-1971 (2 reels). Minutes and reports of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, mission to Native Americans.

These items are available in microfilm format, or rolls of film with micro images of the pages on each film.

Microfilm rolls may not leave the library, and need a microfilm reader to use. 

Please contact the Reference Librarians at sthref@bu.edu to request any rolls of microfilm and make an appointment to use the microfilm readers. Make sure to include the title of the publication as well as the years/volumes/rolls of the title that you are interested in.