Methodist women try to make a difference
By KRISTIE LINDEN
klinden@yourmvi.com
Nearly 150 years ago, eight women met at a United Methodist Church to learn about the health and educational needs of women in India. Within a week, a new organization was born.
Doloris Platter, historian for the California United Methodist Women, is proud of those women who met in Boston, Mass., and started a faith-based, mission-oriented group.
“They were eight ladies who met and heard stories about some of the wives of the missionaries of India and decided to try to support them in some way,” Platter said. “They were powerful women. I’m just thrilled with them.”
Platter, who has been a member since the 1980s, explained that one week after that initial get together, what was then known as the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society was formally chartered and its constitution was written with 28 members present.
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