WOMEN'S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Share full article. Oct. 19, 1876. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 19, 1876, Page 2 Buy Reprints.

Formed in 1888, the Woman's Missionary Union is considered an "auxiliary" - or helper - to the denomination, but it has always been self-governing and financially independent.

Alma Hunt, who led the Woman's Missionary Union for 26 years, died Saturday night in Roanoke. She was 98. After serving as a teacher and principal in Roanoke schools and later as dean of women at ...

The 116-year-old Woman’s Missionary Union is considered the world’s largest Protestant women’s mission organization. Although not under the control of the SBC, WMU raises much of the money that ...

PHOENIX (BP)--Two Woman's Missionary Union leaders were recognized for outstanding service June 13 during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Judith Edwards of Rio Rancho ...

On July 29, nine young women ages 12-16 made this promise at Union Missionary Baptist Church at the culmination of a nine-month church mentoring program called The Virtuous Maidens of God.

Associated Baptist Press has the latest dispatch from the Baptist wars, this one involving the North Carolina WMU, which is distancing itself from the state convention. CARY, N.C. (ABP) -- The ...

Ms Beatrice Amui, National President of the Women Missionary Union (WMU) of the Ghana Baptist Convention, has appealed to Christian women to be actively involved in evangelization to win more ...

Today marks the 175th birthday of Lottie Moon, a woman with Virginia roots who became one of history’s most prolific Baptist missionaries.

The anniversary meeting of the Women's Union Missionary Society for Heathen Lands was held yesterday in the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, Rev. Dr ...