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Katherine “Sister Katie” Blackburn
1924
Katherine “Sister Katie” Blackburn was the only African American Disciples missionary commissioned by the Foreign Christian Missionary Society to serve in the Congo. She served as a kindergarten teacher and evangelized at the Bolenge Mission from 1907 to 1910. Little...
Claude E. Spencer was a historian and writer who played a key role in the establishment of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. His work to assemble and preserve the foundational books and journals of the Stone-Campbell movement created the...
Established in 1904 in Los Angeles, California, the Japanese Christian Institute was sponsored by the Disciples of Christ. Its primary purpose was to support newly arrived Japanese immigrant laborers by offering essential services such as temporary housing, instruction in the...
Grace Bauer was an American missionary and medical technician who dedicated over two decades of her life to service in China. As one of only five United Christian Missionary Society missionaries who stayed in Nanjing during the harrowing Nanjing Massacre—also...
Itoko Maeda was the first Japanese missionary commissioned by the United Christian Missionary Society (UCMS). She served in Japan, Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States, concluding her ministry as the Director of Interpretation for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)...
Maria Butler Jameson of Indianapolis was elected the first president of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions at the Cincinnati meeting and served with distinction from 1874-1890. Butler University is named in honor of her father, Ovid Butler, from whom...
Jorgelina Lozada was one of the first women of the Stone-Campbell tradition to serve as an ordained home missionary and pastor in Argentina. Born on February 18, 1906 to a Protestant English mother and an Argentinean father, Lozada was baptized...
Founder in 1809 with his son Alexander of a movement for the union of Christians by a restoration of the New Testament church. The union of this movement in 1832 with followers of Barton W. Stone formed the Stone-Campbell Movement. ...
The immediate vicinity of the Alexander Campbell Mansion includes the mansion proper, Campbell’s detached hexagonal study and two dependent structures, a schoolhouse and smokehouse/springhouse. Also included is the Campbell family cemetery—”God’s Acre”—in which Campbell and members of his family are...
Edgar Dewitt Jones (1876–1956), Disciples of Christ minister, ecumenist, and author Edgar DeWitt Jones was born December 5, 1876, in Hearne, Texas, and died on March 26, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up in Missouri, he first studied law, but...