The Person Chapel AMEC Women's Missionary Society

The Women's Missionary Society of the A.M.E. Church exists to:

• help women and youth grow in the knowledge of God and Christian experience through Jesus Christ
• promotes fellowship with women of other lands through cooperative relationships.
• foster missionary activities of the local church and overseas.

The first woman missionary of the A.M.E. Church was Sarah Allen, wife of Richard Allen, founder and first Bishop of the church. According to the Know Your Church Manual, p.20, "Her first Mission project was to look after the physical condition of the preachers who her husband sent out on the field. Many of them returned in very poor physical condition, and Sarah Allen organized the women of the church to mend their clothes and provide hot nourishing meals when they came to make their reports."

As time went on, more and more women with a missionary spirit came together in organized groups in attempts to meet the many needs evident around them. The two main organizations were the Parent Mite Missionary Society (est. 1874) and the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society (est. 1895). Plans were already being formulated to establish women's missionary groups in the Southern and Western states and to unify existing efforts. In 1944, a consolidation was desired and completed, providing us with the organizational structure and name we now know as the Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal church.

Organization Mission:

To foster the missionary activities in the local church, Areas, and the Conference Branch levels. Cooperate with the Local church in its responisbilties to become a spiritual lighthouse that leads people to Christ.

Annual Day Celebration: In the month of....(TBD)

Purpose of Annual Day: Recognition and Acknowledgment of "Women in Missions"

Meeting Dates:

Meetings are scheduled for.... (TBD)

Contact Person: , Local WMS President

                                , Conference Branch President