Collections

Woman’s Missionary Union Executive Board Minutes, 1888 to present

Woman’s Missionary Union Annual Reports, 1888 to present

Woman’s Missionary Union Training School records, 1907–1963

Includes personal papers and correspondence of WMUTS principals, and photographs of school life.

Presidents of WMU

Contains biographical sketches, photographs, and correspondence from each President.

Martha E. McIntosh, 1888–1892
Fannie Exile Scudder Heck, 1892–1894; 1895–1899; 1906–1915
Mrs. Abby Manly Gwathmey, 1894–1895
Mrs. Sarah Jessie Davis Stakely, 1899–1903
Mrs. Lillie Easterby Barker, 1903–1906
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy James, 1916–1925
Mrs. Ethlene Boone Cox, 1925–1933
Mrs. Laura Dell Malotte Armstrong, 1933–1945
Mrs. Olive Brinson Martin, 1945–1956
Mrs. Marie Wiley Mathis, 1956–1963; 1969–1975
Mrs. Helen Long Fling, 1963–1969
Mrs. Christine Burton Gregory, 1975–1981
Mrs. Dorothy Elliott Sample, 1981–1986
Mrs. Marjorie Jones McCullough, 1986–1991
Mrs. Carolyn Miller, 1991–1996
Mrs. Wanda Lee, 1996–2000
Mrs. Janet Hoffman, 2000–2005
Mrs. Kaye Miller, 2005–present

Executive Directors of WMU

Contains office correspondence and biographical information.

Annie Walker Armstrong, 1888–1906
Edith Campbell Crane, 1907–1911
Kathleen Moore Mallory, 1912–1948
Alma Hunt, 1948–1974
Carolyn Weatherford, 1974–1989
Dellanna O’Brien, 1989–1999
Wanda Lee, 2000–present

(Title was corresponding secretary until 1937; executive secretary 1937–1975; executive director after 1975.)

Woman's Missionary Union Products

Contains a copy of each resource (books, magazines, resource kits, etc.) produced by WMU.

New Hope Products

Contains a copy of each book published by New Hope Publishers.

Lottie Moon Collection

A collection of biographical leaflets, photographs, artifacts, and recollections related to one of Southern Baptists’ most famous missionaries.

Juliette Mather Collection

Juliette Mather was WMU Young People's Secretary from 1921 to 1948 and Editorial Secretary from 1948 to 1957. Non-WMU material is primarily from Taiwan and Japan, where she spent some time after retiring from WMU; some of those items, specifically letters, date between 1953 and 1970. Included are artifacts, photos, scrapbooks, correspondence, booklets, and books.

Carter Morgan Collection, retired SBC missionary to Hawaii, Hong Kong, and Philippines

Memoirs from a missionary family.

"China Recollections," a collection of 151 sketches of Edgar L. Morgan during missionary service 1905 through 1927. These were originally published during the 1950s in the News-Herald, a weekly newspaper serving Owen County, Kentucky. These sketches describe a pioneering missions era that included Lottie Moon, Cynthia Miller, Ella Jeter, Jessie Pettigrew, and dozens of other missionaries and SBC leaders.

"Post Scripts" by Carter Morgan, on missionary life between 1948 and 1980 in Hawaii, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. These postscripts were so named at the time they were written, and resemble the format of missionary newsletters sent to those on the "home front."