| Birth: | Jul. 11, 1850
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA | | Death: | Dec. 20, 1938
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA | 
Religious Figure. As founder of the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), she was a leader in Southern Baptist evangelization efforts for many years. Raised in a prominent Baltimore family, she was baptized in the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore at 19 and soon became a founding member of Eutaw Place Baptist Church, where she was to be active for a number of years. In 1880, Miss Annie heard a lecture on the plight of Indians living in Oklahoma; she and other ladies organized relief efforts, which led, in 1882, to her becoming the founding president of the Women's Baptist Home Mission Society of Maryland. As a delegate to the Southern Baptist Convention at Richmond, Virginia, in 1888, she was the driving force for starting the WMU, of which she was to be corresponding secretary (executive director) until 1906. That same year, she was responsible for collecting $2,883.49 to send to missionary Lottie Moon in China, the first "Lottie Moon Christmas Offering". Taking as her motto "Go Forward!", Miss Annie made the WMU an auxillary of the Southern Baptist Convention, with the authority to raise money and select its own missionaries; she was instrumental in reaching out to Black, Chinese immigrant, and Indian congregations, and commissioned the first two Black female missionaries. Always working without salary, and paying her own expenses, she kept busy with her home church, the WMU, and with writing for Southern Baptist publications. Miss Annie resigned from her position and from the organization in 1906 due to disagreement over a move to pay the corresponding secretary, and to make the WMU training school a part of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. She remained active in local Baltimore missions to the end of her life; today, she is enshrined in the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, the Woman's Missionary Union continues its work, and the "Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions" is collected (as is the Lottie Moon Offering) in every Southern Baptist Church on earth. (bio by: Bob Hufford)
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Parents:
James Dunn Armstrong (1806 - 1852)
Mary Elizabeth Armstrong (1824 - 1899)
Search Amazon for Annie Armstrong | | | Burial:
Green Mount Cemetery
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA
Plot: Section P, Grave 63 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Bob Hufford
Record added: Mar 15, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 49747336 |
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