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Description:Lucy Rider Meyer (1849-1922) was a well-known leader in Christian social service and religious education as well as a physician, chemistry professor, and hymn writer. Her deaconess work has been often compared to Jane Addams' settlement house movement. With a vision to train lay Christian women intellectually and help them provide health and social services among the urban poor, she along with her husband, Josiah Shelley Meyer, founded the Chicago Training School for Home, City, and Foreign Missions in 1885 and served as its first principal until 1917. In 1908 Meyer formed the Methodist Deaconess Association. She and her husband resigned as superintendent and principal of the Chicago Training School in 1917, by which time the school had graduated more than 5,000 trained workers. During her term, with the graduates, she initiated the development of 40 institutions including schools, hospitals, orphanages, old people's homes, and deaconess homes. She also played a critical role in the revival of the deaconess movement in the United Methodist Church.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Deaconesses and Their Calling: a hand-book for the instruction of probationers. To get started finding Deaconesses and Their Calling: a hand-book for the instruction of probationers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lucy Rider Meyer (1849-1922) was a well-known leader in Christian social service and religious education as well as a physician, chemistry professor, and hymn writer. Her deaconess work has been often compared to Jane Addams' settlement house movement. With a vision to train lay Christian women intellectually and help them provide health and social services among the urban poor, she along with her husband, Josiah Shelley Meyer, founded the Chicago Training School for Home, City, and Foreign Missions in 1885 and served as its first principal until 1917. In 1908 Meyer formed the Methodist Deaconess Association. She and her husband resigned as superintendent and principal of the Chicago Training School in 1917, by which time the school had graduated more than 5,000 trained workers. During her term, with the graduates, she initiated the development of 40 institutions including schools, hospitals, orphanages, old people's homes, and deaconess homes. She also played a critical role in the revival of the deaconess movement in the United Methodist Church.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Deaconesses and Their Calling: a hand-book for the instruction of probationers. To get started finding Deaconesses and Their Calling: a hand-book for the instruction of probationers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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