In 1880, a local branch of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was organized in the Baldwin church. Dr. and Mrs. Julius Smith, long missionaries in Burma and later residents in Baldwin, were especially influential along with many pastors and teachers in arousing interest in world evangelism. Baker students who worked in this church during their college years as well as those who were born in Baldwin should be mentioned among the number of those who have gone from this church to the foreign field.
"The Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, October 4-6, 1930" booklet lists the following:
Africa: Pliny Keys and Mrs. Clara Evans Keys, Stephen Kiser and Beulah Reitz.
Argentine Republic and Chile: Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Braden.
Burma: Phoebe James, Mary Shannon, Elsie Power, Gladys Moore, and Grace Wasem.
China: Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Coole, Ray Torrey, Edith Yautsey, Mary Kesler, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steinhimer, Francis R. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Coole, Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Coole, Irma Highbaugh, Cammie Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jett, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Havignhurst, Celia Moyer, Grace McKartey, Lau Ging Bau.
India: Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Manley, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Baker, Dr. Fred M. Perrill, Mary Richmond, Mrs. Aletha Kelly Henoyer, Ethel Calkins, Pheobe Emery, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Rupert, Emma Warner, Grace Honnell, Mr. and Mrs. John Paterson, Helen McMillan, Mary Shannon, and Marie Powers.
Italy: Mrs. Anna Porter Gianborizi.
Japan: Dr. David Obata, Minnie Gardner, Dora Wagner, Mrs. May Muenzenmayer Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Mann.
Korea: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reppert, Mrs. Harriet Evans Van Buskirk, Jeannette Walter, Mary E. Young.
Peru: Netella Loy, Alva Walter, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brewster.
Roumania: Mary McIntyre.
Mexico: Dr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey, Frank Brown, Ida Bohannan, Edith Salmons, Ethel Thomas, Clara Salmons, Mrs. Hazel Mason Crowell, Maude Crowell.
The Philippine Islands: Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Ryan.
The Straits Settlements, Sumatra and Java: Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Oechsli, Clyde Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hibbard, J. C. Shover, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Runyan.
(Years of Service not listed.)
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"During the first 100 years of Methodism's missionary program, we have sent out 438 new missionaries, built 490 new foreign churches and gathered in 80,075 new members. In the U.S. we have built or aided in building 2,749 new structures". –from Church bulletin, Sept. 1923.
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