Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Founders: Mrs. Thomas Rich, Mrs. E. W. Parker, Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury, Mrs. William Merrill, Mrs. William Butler, Mrs. Lewis Flanders | |
| Abbreviation | WFMS of the MEC |
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| Formation | March 1869 |
| Legal status | incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1884 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Origins | Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Services | women missionaries to foreign countries |
Main organ | The Heathen Woman's Friend |
Parent organization | Methodist Episcopal Church |
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (acronym WFMS of the MEC) was one of three Methodist organizations in the United States focused on women's foreign missionary services; the two others were the WFMS of the Free Methodist Church of North America and the WFMS of the Methodist Protestant Church.
The WFMS of the MEC was founded in the Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in Boston, Massachusetts, March 1869, and incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1884. Its fields of operation included: Europe (Bulgaria, Italy, France); Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay); Asia (Malaysia, China, Korea, India, Japan, The Philippines); and Africa (Algeria, Angola, Portuguese East Africa, Rhodesia, Tunis).